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NANCY KING BLUE TRUTH Michael Sussman Civil Rights Champion Page 7 LEE DANIELS Peter Matthiessen’s Rich Literary Legacy Page 8 GLENN SLABY Seeking Faith and Baseball Page 9

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Infested by Allegedly EFRAIM INBAR Jerusalem is Not Corrupt Renegades Up for Grabs Page 15 By HEZI ARIS, Page 3 LUKE HAMiLTON Rise of the P.I.N.O. New Rochelle’s Next The Low-Wage Labor Politician Boom…Its Very Own Market and the Failure Page 18 BARBARA BARTON SLOANE Latin Quarter of Management Lush Life By BOB MARRONE, Page 4 By Prof. OREN LEVIN-WALDMAN, Page 4 Kauai, Hawaii Page 20 WWW.WESTCHESTERGUARDIAN.COM Page 26 The WesTchesTer Guardian ThursdaY, FeBruarY 23, 2012

CLASSIFIED ADS LEGAL NOTICES Office Space Available- FAMILY COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK Prime Location, Yorktown Heights COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER 1,000 Sq. Ft.: $1800. Contact Wilca: 914.632.1230 In the Matter of ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE SUMMONS AND INQUEST NOTICE Prime Retail - Westchester County Chelsea Thomas (d.o.b. 7/14/94), Best Location in Yorktown Heights A Child Under 21 Years of Age Dkt Nos. NN-10514/15/16-10/12C 1100 Sq. Ft. Store $3100; 1266 Sq. Ft. store $2800 and 450 Sq. Ft. Store $1200. Adjudicated to be Neglected by NN-2695/96-10/12B Suitable for any type of business. Contact Wilca: 914.632.1230 FU No.: 22303 Tiffany Ray and Kenneth Thomas, Page 26 Respondents.The Wes Tches Ter Guardian X ThursdaY, FeBruarY 23, 2012 HELP WANTED NOTICE: PLACEMENT OF YOUR CHILD IN FOSTER CARE MAY RESULT IN YOUR LOSS OF YOUR A non profit Performing Arts Center is seeking two job positions- 1) Direc- RIGHTS TO YOUR CHILD. 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As a member attempted to make his way Detective. Pataky told that member he could Infested by Allegedly Corrupt Renegades; out of the meeting, Yonkers PBA President not leave the room because Olson was not Olson yelled out, “Don’t let that guy leave the finished with him. Sources and witnesses When Will They Be Judged? room, this next issue pertains to him”. Words report that Pataky was clearly motioning his were thereafter exchanged between Olson hands towards that member’s face. Other By HEZI ARIS was initialized. As the Yonkers Tribune would and the member who continued to make union trustees who were with Pataky were come to learn, much became apparent his way out of the meeting. As the member heard yelling, “Hold him”. As any normal during a cold January night. Sources report Cluck, Cluck; reached the exit door, PBA Union Trustee person would expect, mayhem broke out that during that January meeting, Olson and Cluck, Cluck William Pataky attempted to verbally, and between union officials and attending PBA Legal Counsel Andrew Quinn, Esq., physically impede the exiting member from members. Cluck. were questioned by PBA members regard- leaving. This is the same William Pataky ing one of the allegedly worst contracts in The melée came and went like a Yonkers Police Benevolent that was featured in the Erik Shilling article the state, specifically with respect to General summer rainstorm, and that Detective Association (PBA) President Keith Olson published in The Journal News on April 7, Municipal Law 207-c, in which Olson sold was finally able to leave. It was then finally has been vacationing in sunny Puerto Rico 2014, entitled: “2 Yonkers Cops Named in his soul to Mayor Mike Spano so as to hold clear to all the members why Olson and his this past week. The distance has however 14 Misconduct Lawsuits.” onto his seat as Yonkers PBA President for Union “thug” Trustee Pataky wanted him not removed him from being scrutinized Pataky was clearly heard mouthing to stay. Yonkers PBA union leader Olson with respect to many past allegations. It political influence and the hopes of patron- age jobs, such as the one given to his sister epithets, explicit profanity toward that introduced, and read by-laws to begin the seems he remains the subject of yet another Sometime in December 2014, a Continued on page 4 Kelly Chiarella, within two-weeks after the member who reports say is a Yonkers Police internal investigation that begs for outside, memorandum was issued by Yonkers Police contract was ratified. The contract placed independent investigation. It’s not that Commissioner (PC) Charles Gardner who the PBA membership at a legal disadvan- Yonkers Internal Affairs Department (IAD) recognized that Yonkers PBA President tage against CoY with regard to General is incapable of such an investigating or of Keith Olson and his “buddies”, Fourth Municipal Law 207-c. The contract was uncovering any allegations, should they be Police Precinct Captain John Mueller, and anything but fair to the members of the proven or not, it’s what’s done with those Detective Sergeant Brian Moran were YPD membership. The contract also “findings” that is unnerving. IAD reports allegedly behind several unauthorized inves- chopped away at members’ salaries, and have been apprehended by some whose tigations which if proven, clearly violate their vacation time. Since the ratification of conduct reeks of political intrusion and departmental rules and regulations, as well the PBA contract, I.A.F.F. Local 628, and interference. as New York State s regarding their target- CLSA have refused the city’s offer. There clearly seem to be two standards ing members of the Captain, Lieutenants, Sources note that Olson staged an within the Yonkers Police Department and Sergeants Association (CLSA), and incident and reportedly had his union “thug” (YPD). One standard is specific to the certain Yonkers PBA members. The memo- trustees stand at the entrance door to the working street cop, who follows directives randum was quickly designated the “Keith Dunwoodie Hall as members entered into every day, and another for the likes of Olson Olson Rule”, because most of the rank and the room. One of those trustees was Police and his patronage mill of known cronies. A file attest Olson was behind the quietly con- Officer William Pataky of the Fourth Police litany of records and reports reflect that this ducted, though unauthorized investigations. Precinct, chatter reportedly defines Pataky was not the first investigation against the The “Keith Olson Rule” memorandum to be Captain John Mueller’s go to guy union leader. Does outside political interfer- was ordered to be read for twelve consecu- to put down any precinct union issues. In ence trump and manipulate New York State tive Roll Calls throughout the YPD. As the return, Mueller allegedly feeds Pataky with and Federal laws and guidelines? Who has union leader, one may infer PBA President overtime over other precinct members. As the wherewithal to interfere with a NYS Olson was fully cognizant of the memoran- Specialized Diagnostic Medical attending personnel sort answers, Olson did Police Agency? That will be the issue that dum and its contents. what any other “dirty politician” would do Sonography Career Training at will eventually rest before Yonkersites and Since the “Keith Olson Rule” was which was to either not answer the question outside investigators to infer and deduce issued, specifically at the January 2014th Center for Ultrasound Research & Education directly or deflect it back as a question. When despite the political quagmire that has grown PBA meeting, the catalyst behind the most Classes start soon it was clear that Olson knew nothing of the out of control in the City of Yonkers (CoY). current IAD investigation into Keith Olson newly passed 207-c, Andrew Quinn, the ULTRASOUND CAREERS BEGIN HERE RADIO PBA attorney attempted to fill in the blanks. However, after all the rhetoric cleared, RD Quinn is said to have finally admitted that OPEN HOUSE SATURDAY, MAY 3 FROM 12-4PM Westchester On the Level the union conceded to the Yonkers City Hall’s demands, and the burden of proof was • 12-24 Month Certifi cate Programs with Narog and Aris no longer on CoY to prove if officers were • Day and Evening Classes • Job Placement Assistance Designated a “Featured” BlogTalk Radio entitled to the crucial benefits of the NYS • 0% Interest Financial Assistance Available program, has been operating for over two General Municipal Law, but was switched years via the Internet with Co-Hosts Richard and placed on the members’ shoulders. That • Licensed by NYSED / BPSS; Accredited by ABHES Narog and Hezi Aris every weekday, from 10 crucial change would also add emotional and • Growing, In Demand Profession a.m. to 12 Noon. Listen to the show live or financial strain to the families of members if on demand. Share your perspective by calling the department chose to stop the benefits to www.cure.edu (347) 205-9201 or by clicking onto the following the injured or sick officer. CALL 1-855-THE CURE • 1-855-0843-2873 hyperlinks: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/ According to inside sources, Olson con- westchesteronthelevel tinued to play charades with the questions. 271 NORTH AVE., NEW ROCHELLE, NY Page 4 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN Thursday, APRIL 17, 2014

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The other charges were just as frivolous as police personnel. Olson then sent his long employees of Dunwoodie. The IAD discov- Infested by Allegedly Corrupt Renegades those written by Olson. Sources further time Housing Unit friend Detective John ered that Police Detective John Donaghy Continued from page 3 misconduct committed by a handfull of advise that Olson reportedly called Police Donaghy to retrieve potential evidence, since had already removed and tampered with expulsion procedures against Detective “gangster” cops who targeted members of Commissioner (PC) Gardner himself and his petition stated that a crime was commit- “potential” evidence. According to infor- Raymond Montero of the Yonkers Police the CLSA, and PBA not worthy of being claimed there was some display of emotions ted against Pataky. Detective Donaghy then, mation obtained after the incident, that Department’s Narcotics/Gang unit, a former reported? Internal complaints letters, emails, at the meeting. What he did not tell PC following Olson’s alged instructions, identi- property was found in Larchmont at the Yonkers PBA Vice President, and a twenty- as well as internal reports all indicate Olson Gardner is that he personally commenced fied himself as a Yonkers Police Detective Detective’s home. The YPD has since then five-year, recognized and well-decorated and others have, to say the least, committed another unauthorized investigation against from the Detective Division while off-duty been investigating the entire incident, but Police Detective who reports indicate pulled official police misconduct. Does holding the that member. Internal reports say that Keith and removed “potential” evidence from the has yet to file any official misconduct charges two wounded New York State Troopers purse of the PBA ward off actions by city Olson himself called the Dunwoodie Golf Dunwoodie premises without any legal against Olson and others stemming from the from a fire fight during an early morning leaders? This is the dark side of the Yonkers Course and identified himself as Detective authorization. That “potential” evidence was January meeting. It was also reported that no raid in which the suspect was shot and killed PBA under the leadership of Olson. He Keith Olson of the Yonkers PBA, and told then reportedly looked at and analyzed by one actually saw the mayhem but Olson and in The Bronx. throws his weight around with the cash of a female Dunwoodie employee that he both Olson and Donaghy while on duty and Pataky, who apparently have the same alibi wanted all video and audio for the night of from a city- owned computer. According (story) covering each other’s back against Why would any union president want approximately 485 dues paying members. the January PBA meeting. He then report- to other employees at the facility, they were another union member. In fact, Olson repre- to expel any union member? If one member Since the chilly January PBA meeting, edly told the employee that he would be witness to the removal of the equipment. sented Pataky during the IAD investigation, is expelled then that paves the way for Olson and some of his precinct trustees sending a Yonkers Police Detective from the and Yonkers PBA Legal Counsel Quinn others to be easily expelled, denying Police began writing up expulsion petition against While this was going on PC Gardner Detective Division’s Technical Unit that also represented Olson. That conduct stinks of Officers their freedom of speech, not for that Detective, which is ironically devoid decided to commence his own investigation collects evidence for IAD, and crime scenes conflict; yet not a word from anyone. what Olson falsely asserts are acts prejudicial of noting the reason for the action. The into Olson’s claims. Surprisingly, the Internal to retrieve potential evidence of the incident to the interest of the association. Is giving Detective was struck by 4th Precinct Union Affairs Division uncovered the investiga- As for the incident itself, it reeks without notifying any Detective Supervisor, notice and fighting against internal police Trustee William Pataky; how pathetic. tion being conducted from the Office of Internal Affairs personnel, or any other the PBA when they arrived to interview VIVA NEW ROCHELLE

community of New Rochelle. New Rochelle’s Next Boom…Its Very Own Latin Quarter In my career as a broadcaster and in my emerging efforts to promote business, I have By BOB MARRONE Sound, haven to the upscale in the north- Now there are Mexican restaurants, bodegas, Wings are people of color, brown or black. listened to countless entreaties to broaden end and along the shore lines, situated next pubs and Latin American themed churches. Many of the new businesses opening up are the tax base, improve the downtown and I am not really sure it is news. to tony enclaves like Scarsdale, Larchmont Yes, there are still a few of the old haunts. But run by Latin Americans. And when you bring in more businesses. This is all very But truth be told, I don’t and Eastchester, not advertise that a signifi- the neighborhood has changed for good, or drive though the west-end, the homes are doable. To do it to the degree we would read a lot about it. Perhaps cant part of the city, and a driving force in its at least for a few generations until some other owned and burnished by their new inhabit- all want, will require that we embrace and political correctness has downtown, is Latino, primarily of Mexican group comes along. We are very much, along ants, just as they were a few generations ago include this growing and important popula- scared off even people who descent. There I said it. It wasn’t hard at all. with all the other diversity that blesses this populated by my own national immigrants tion and market. In the balance we will also want to celebrate the city’s largest west-end Recent events and opportunities have town, a Latin locale. If we have not done so and their children. They… we… share a find that the culture of this already multicul- population from actually referring to it. Yes, taken me back to my adopted city with an already or sufficiently, it is time to embrace future. tural and diverse city is enriched still further. my progressive friends, political correctness eye towards the business community and to yet more of the Latin flavors and culture, The schools seem well aware of this and Viva New Rochelle. has become so toxic that fear in singling out locales in the old Italian enclave south west and respond to the banquet of opportunities it is reflected in enrollment and activities; so a group even for praise is anathema in our Bob Marrone is a freelance writer focused on the of North Avenue. Indeed, what was once before New Rochelle. have the area colleges. It seems to me that the time. On the other side of the coin, I am people, communities, neighborhoods, concerns, filled with Italian pork stores, funeral homes Take a walk on Main Street. The political and business organizations, along sure there are those who would prefer that and dreams of those people inhabiting, investing, and restaurants, has been transformed by majority of people shopping in the stores, with the rich and historic arts community, no one mention that the Queen City on the and working in the Sound Shore. New Rochelle’s more recent immigrants. bowling at New Roc, and eating at Buffalo need to engage even more with the Hispanic PUBLIC POLICY Taylor also observed that there were The Low-Wage Labor Market and the Failure of Management two types of workers:“first-class” workers and “second-class” workers. The first-class By Prof. OREN encouraged to return to school so that they respond positively to rewards and negatively profits and minimize their costs while con- worker was naturally the high quality worker LEVIN-WALDMAN can acquire the necessary skills to function in to punishment, they could be whipped into sumers would seek to maximize their utility who was driven to achieve success. But the the modern economy. becoming more productive. while minimizing their costs. This, of course, second-class worker was either lazy, lacking A common criticism of in ability, or simply needed motivation. To a certain extent, this line of thinking In the grand scheme of things, this was became the definition of efficiency that we increasing the minimum Taylor actually argued that it was manage- reflects a classical managerial tradition based merely an application of utilitarian principles are all familiar with: producing more for less. wage is that minimum ment’s job to take the second-class worker on the writings of Frederick Winslow Taylor, to management. After all, the 18th Century Applied to the worker, Taylor argued wage workers simply aren’t and transform that person into a first-class otherwise known as Taylorism. Taylor who British philosopher Jeremy Bentham noted that if workers were offered inducements worth more than they are receiving. They worker. A manager who could not do this wrote in the late 19th Century was often that there were two sovereign masters of like more pay, leisure time, and other benefits simply lack the skills required to command was simply not a good manager. considered to be the father of scientific prin- the universe: pleasure and pain. We seek to they would produce more and add to the higher wages. Or if it isn’t a matter of skill, it American industry, especially in the ciples of business management. Based on maximize our pleasure while minimizing efficiency of the firm. But if they were lazy, is a question of quality. Low-wage workers, global economy, has taken the path of least time motion studies of how workers worked, our pain. This observation led to two funda- they would be punished by being docked or in other words, are simply poor quality resistance. It is easy to get rid of the second especially in the nation’s emerging factories, mental maxims: the first maxim in politics even terminated. And yet, there was more to workers. Therefore, it is incumbent upon class worker, and instead of offering carrots he argued that a general set of management was that a government responsive to the the Taylorite argument than simply offering them to improve themselves so that they can to get increased output from workers, that principles could be developed. His most will of the people would seek to achieve the carrots and sticks. Contrary to popular man- become higher quality workers and give back can be achieved simply through the threat famous contribution to the management greatest happiness for the greatest number of agerial misconception, Taylor wasn’t saying value to their employers. Instead of forcing of being fired. Or as Marx rightly noted, cannon is, of course, the carrot-and-stick people. And the second maxim in econom- that it is necessarily O.K. to fire unproduc- employers to pay higher wages for poor a capitalist system relies on an industrial approach. Figuring that workers would ics that firms would seek to maximize their tive workers. Rather, it was management’s quality, low-wage workers should simply be responsibility to make them productive. Continued on page 5 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN Thursday, APRIL 17, 2014 Page 5

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a person is worth. On what basis could we to strike most ordinary observers as being The Low-Wage Labor Market and the Failure of Management say that one is only worth $7.25 an hour hostile to family values. Surely we can see the Continued from page 4 would have you believe that it is adhering to. more into the human capital of their workers compared to $10.10? That is a value judge- hypocrisy. To not pay low wage workers more on the so that they will become first-class and offer ment for which there is no universally reserve army of labor — a massive presence Oren Levin-Waldman is professor of public grounds that they aren’t worth it effectively greater value in exchange for the higher accepted objective measure. The point about of unemployed — in order to discipline policy in the School for Public Affairs at absolves managers of their responsibility wage. the minimum wage is, contrary to the view workers. At the same time, the classical view Metropolitan College of New York (olevin- while shifting the burden onto society’s most that it is a feel-good measure, it is a reference of workers as merely being factors of produc- Clearly if we are going to employ a [email protected] ) and author of vulnerable. point for the overall low-wage labor market. tion also meant that they no longer had to carrot-and-stick approach, it needs to be several books on wage policy. They include the It has become, perhaps by default, the be viewed as individual beings capable of Let’s concede for a moment that these applied to managers as well as workers. In just published: Wage Policy, Income Distribution accepted guide for what low-wage workers human agency. They became as interchange- critics may be right that they are not worth part, Taylor was assuming that managers and Democratic Theory (http://www.routledge. are worth. It has become a necessary labor able as the pieces they were assembling on more. Instead of thinking selfishly about needed to understand that if they could not com/books/details/9780415779715/#reviews market institution to ensure that those at the the line in the factory, which also meant that how they can continue to lower costs off make their workers into first class workers, ); The Political Economy of the Living Wage: A bottom end can make a liveable wage. could just as easily be discarded.. the backs of workers, who lack individuality it was really their jobs on the line. To simply Study of Four Cities (M.E. Sharpe 2005); and For those on the political right who like Were we to heed Taylor’s exhorta- because they are interchangeable parts, they claim that low-wage workers aren’t worth The Case of the Minimum Wage: Competing to tout family values, it needs to be empha- tion that manager have a responsibility to should ask how can we all work together to more, is to let the managers off of the hook, Policy Models (SUNY Press 2001). He is a sized that paying workers liveable wages that make first-class workers out of second-class make for a more prosperous economy. That and we as a society ultimately incur the researcher for the Employment Policy Research enable them to support themselves and their workers, it should become obvious to all that is not going to happen by paying low wages. higher social costs by having to subsidize Network (EPRN), and some of his work can families in dignity is ultimately a matter of to cavalierly assert that low-wage workers Perhaps low-wage workers are second-class manager’s failed leadership with the neces- be found at http://www.employmentpolicy.org/ family values. To then oppose minimum are simply not worth more because they because they are underpaid. Management sary supports for low-wage workers. people/oren-levin-waldman . are low quality is in fact a contradiction of could just as easily respond to calls for an Of course, there is the more basic wage increases on the grounds that these the Taylorite principles that management increase in the minimum wage by investing question of how we even determine what workers aren’t worth more would appear CommunitySection CALENDAR

with a riverfront day of free family events B. Engel Waterfront Park will be on April News & Notes from Northern Westchester honoring our planet and commemorating 19th from 11am-4pm. You can learn how the legacy of riverkeeper Pete Seeger. Join to live a more sustainable life, visit artisan By MARK JEFFERS Green Day on Saturday, April 26th, at the Kisco. the Greater Ossining community in their vendors, and enjoy food and live music on Pound Ridge Elementary School, from What better way to celebrate the annual celebration of Earth Day. Ossining’s the Hudson River. This year, they will pay April is a big birthday month 11am to 3pm. This will be a free, fun, family, much anticipated arrival of spring than 5th Annual Earth Day Festival at Louis Continued on page 6 in the Jeffers family, wife, event that is educational and interactive sister, aunt and daughter for all ages. Pound Ridge is a unique place all celebrate, so best wishes that is facing environmental challenges. The Commercial • Industrial to all April birthdays and goal for the day is to bring together various & Residential Services please enjoy this week’s “ageless” edition of ecological messages from the town boards “News & Notes.” / commissions, local area organizations and Roll-Off Containers 1-30 Yards Join the good folks at the Antioch businesses to educate the community about Home Cleanup Containers Baptist Church in Bedford Hills for an their natural environment and empower uplifting afternoon to see and hear the them to make environmentally responsible Turn-Key Demolition Services talented and inspiring Chancel Choir on choices for a more sustainable future. Sunday, April 27th at 4pm. There is no admis- In celebration of the 44th Earth Day on DEC Licensed Transfer Station sion; attendees can make a free-will offering April 22nd, they will educate the community and all proceeds benefit the programs about all things “green” such as composting, and services of the Community Center of organic gardening, recycling, energy effi- www.citycarting.net DEP Licensed Rail Serve Northern Westchester. ciency, water conservation and protection, Transfer & Recyling Services I am not sure who my family of environmental protection, reducing the redheads should cheer for in a Blondes City Carting of Westchester carbon footprint, healthy lifestyles, and more. Licensed Demolition Contractor verses Brunettes flag football game… help The New Castle Historical Society is Somers Sanitation TACKLE Alzheimer’s Disease with an holding its Annual Spring Luncheon, (don’t B & S Carting exciting new event. The Hudson Valley/ Locally Owned & Operated you just love hearing the word spring…) on AAA Paper Recycling Radio Dispatched Rockland/Westchester, NY Chapter of the April 24th at the Sleepy Hollow Country Alzheimer’s Association introduces Blondes Club. Bria Carting vs. Brunettes - a flag football game to raise Fully Insured - FREE Estimates Congratulations and three cheers to City Con dential Shredding awareness and support. The inaugural event Armonk resident Marian Hamilton who will is scheduled for 2pm on Saturday, April th be honored on April 24 by the Volunteer On-Site Document Destruction 26th, at the New Rochelle High School. For Center of the United Way for establishing 800.872.7405 • 203.324.4090 more information, contact Sydney Binney the Ken Hamilton Caregivers Center at the Same Day Roll Off Service 914-253-6860. 8 Viaduct Road, Stamford, CT 06907 Northern Westchester Hospital in Mount Check out the first Pound Ridge Go Page 6 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN Thursday, APRIL 17, 2014

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BLACKSMITHING improve the quality of life for patients and and the tri-state area by hosting a 3-day Seniors Only); and from 2pm-4pm, the $1 News & Notes from Northern Westchester their families. They rely heavily on volunteers long dress giveaway and a $1 dress sale that Dress Sale will be open to the public. Continued from page 5 come volunteer at The Sleepy Hollow Sprint like you so that all of the money raised can go will be open to the public. The Westchester Did I just see Peter Cottontail hopping Top Ten Trends of 2014 - A Year of Extremes prescriptions and even their genetic indi- and finds long-elusive contentment in the thatTriathlon online on educational June 29th platforms in Sleepy fall Hollow. short directly to the mission. County Center in White Plains will be down the bunny trial, Happy Easter to all… cators have been funneled to a wide range process.special tribute to the life and legacy of Pete ofThis providing event isdepth put andon byeffectiveness The Leukemia in the & It is too late for me as my daughter has become the showroom on Thursday, April see you next week. Continued from page 4 much maligned for currying narcissism of databases. Those databases have many SeegerYou by already sharing know threads that of hisolder teachings workers, in learning experience will all but disappear. had her Prom dress for May since January 17th, 12pm-5pm (HS Seniors Only); Friday, Lymphoma Society, a non-profit, whose Mark Jeffers resides in Bedford Hills, New York, pulled out from under them as they will will make the donation of money, time purposes and a growing number of hands seeingboth action their retirementand song throughout plans shattered, the day. have Across the entire educational spectrum, but Operation PROM is celebrating 10 April 18th, 10am-4pm (HS Seniors Only); mission is to cure leukemia, lymphoma, with his wife Sarah, and three daughters, Kate, continue to be for the foreseeable future the and talents so easy that people will be able on them. to workLet’s beyond support traditional the fight retirement against cancer… years. onlineHodgkin’s learning disease will expandand myeloma,to include notand years of serving students in Westchester Saturday, April 19th, 10am-2pm (HS citizens of Slavelandia will have no recourse to enact their better natures without resis- The positive and negative implica- You also know that those same economic only course instruction, but also a wealth Amanda, and Claire. but action. The fast-food worker strikes of tance. Be they Boomers in renaissance or tions of this trend are equally powerful. dynamics are forcing aging Boomers to of real-life learning experience, with con- 2013, seeking a higher minimum wage, populists in revolt, people will discover and Individuals and their health care providers entirelyCULTURAL rethink retirement. PERSPECTIVES And, of course, siderable participation by the skills-hungry were just a mild taste of what is to come. expand the humanist side of globalism and can more easily tie vital physical data with you know that as Boomers are living longer, business community. Learn more in the Winter Trends Journal. act accordingly. See why in the Top Trends worldwide medical databases to anticipate traditional thinking about retirement has For individuals, educational institu- The New Altruism: Several burgeon- of 2014 Winter edition of the Trends and potentially prevent disease. But, in beenMadama stood on its head. EstherWhat you might tions, industries, small businesses and ing trends identified for 2014 will coalesce Journal. the wrong hands, the data can be used to not realize is how these factors are compel- up-and-coming entrepreneurs, the impli- in a welcome trend toward selfless concern Private Health Goes Public: While exploit, damage and take advantage of indi- ling Boomers toBy unearthSHERIF AWADpotent creative cations are enormous. From traditional for the wellbeing of others and an interest the world focused on the blockbuster viduals and their families. Security concerns energies not only to survive, but to realize degree-based education to very specific in the common good. 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Care Act brought some attention to this style and societal determinants are building only to find she had entered a world she www.TrendsResearch.com or by calling compelling 2014 trend in depth. Ironically, the Internet that has been developing trend, around the globe, data a creative foundation for the older popula- never knew existed. This is the simple 1-845.331.3500. on individuals’ health status, behaviors, tion as it discovers new approaches to work yet profoundDigital Learningstory of a Explodes:short film Fears called Madama Esther, written directed by Luck Madama Esther. Razanajaona, a young emerging filmmaker from the island nation of Madagascar. ruled by France from 1897 until 1960 when We might have been introduced to the it gained its independence. Since 1992, the name Madagascar through the popular ani- nation has officially been governed as a mation series by DreamWorks which starred constitutional democracy from its capital CommunitySection four animals who escaped from the New Antananarivo. However, in a popular CALENDAR York Central Zoo only to find themselves uprising in 2009 the last elected president in Madagascar. History and geography tell Marc Ravalomanana was forced to resign are included free of charge; for middle and us thatIf DonaldMadagascar Trump is an runs island for countrygovernor, in and presidential power was transferred in News & Notes from Northern Westchester high school age. canthe IndianI become Ocean, the offnew the host coast of of“Celebrity Southeast March 2009 to Andry Rajoelina in a move Representative Sean Patrick Maloney Apprentice”?Africa so it is See considered you next part week. of the African widely viewed by the international commu- By MARK JEFFERS th will be the keynote speaker at the Antioch a winter forum on Saturday, January 11 , GPNY’s Art Garage and then head for the Markcontinent. Jeffers In resides fact, infollowing Bedford theHills, prehistoric New York, nity as a coup d’état. Baptist Church’s annual Reverend “Wild Flowers of the Wetlands and slot track. “Slot car racing is a logical exten- withbreakup his wife of theSarah, supercontinent and three daughters, Gondwana, Kate, In 1975, the Malagasy government One of the trickiest tasks Waysides? What Are We Losing? What sion to our existing racing-related offerings Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial th Amanda,Madagascar and splitClaire. from India approximately nationalized the movie theatres and estab- for us this winter season is Can We Use?” and fits very well with our long term goal Scholarship Banquet on Friday, January 10 , storing the Christmas deco- 88 million years ago, allowing native plants lished the Office du Cinema Malgache. Congratulations and good luck to our of making Grand Prix a destination where at 7pm. Contact the church office at 914- rations in our garage while and animals to evolve in relative isolation. The national film industry, although very friend Kenny Hayden as he has signed on families, friends and corporate groups can 241-0189 forLuck ticket Razanajaona. information. making room for the cars In contemporary times, Madagascar was much in its infancy, is influenced by both with the University of Albany to play baseball enjoy time together doing whatever it is they so we can plow our driveway. Good news to Nollywood, Nigerian cinema, and French and further his education next year… love, all under one roof.” said Grand Prix report… Frosty and Santa are now driving cinema. The most notable director was own house. Like many countries where Luck is preparing a new short project called The first of the 2014 Home Gardening New York’s Vice President Nat Mundy. our car, but we made enough room to shut Raymond Rajaonarivelo, director of movies filmmaking is just beginning to rise from its Memories where he is mixing Asian martial Lecture Series at the Anthony Veteran Park The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra will the door… Kudos to my wife. It was her th such as Quand Les Etoiles Rencontrent La infancy, casting of amateurs and non-profes- arts and fantasy films. It will revolve around in Ardsley will be “Right Tree in the Right be celebrating their 40 birthday with a efore speaking to the police...call planning that allowed me to finish up this th B Mer (When the Stars Meet the Sea) and concert on January 26 at the Performing sional actors rule. The secret is to have the a warrior protagonist named Rama who is week’s edition of “News & Notes.” Place, with Amy Albam.” th Arts Center at Purchase College. Tabataba (The Spreading of Rumors). The perfect cast. The old lady who played Esther fatally wounded. Accepting his death while A big thank you goes out to the On Saturday, January 11 , the George Weinbaum Rencontres du Film Court Madagascar is Armstrong Education Center will host a A very well deserved celebration is set influenced Luck to accommodate the script traversing across vast forest, a spirit comes to Lions Club of Bedford Hills for their $500 th for January 25 as Bedford 2020 will hold ATTORNEY AT LAW an award given to honor the best short films according to her capabilities as an actress visit him to offer him a second chance. donation to the Bedford Hills Free Library workshop on the Wild Suburbia Project a Community Celebration honoring Lee and players in the industry. Film theaters in facing the camera for the first time. to benefit youth programs. from 10am to Noon. This project captures Born in Cairo, Egypt, Sherif Awad is a film / important information about local wildlife, Roberts for 20 years of service for the town. the capital Antananarivo show Hollywood Razanajaona was also invited in the Grab your X’s, Q’s and Z’s and head video critic and curator. He is the film editor of their movement, and interactions. All are You know I will be in attendance at this blockbuster films dubbed into French. From 10th Berlinale Talent Campus in Germany over to the Katonah Memorial House these backgrounds, Luck Razanajaona grew Egypt Today Magazine ( www.EgyptToday. th encouraged to become citizen scientists and beer lover’s dream-come-true event... the Big FREE CONSULTATION: and the Durban Talent Campus in South on January 11 for the Katonah Scrabble com ), and the artistic director for both the help record sightings of all the wildlife here Brew NY Beer Festival at the Westchester up only to study arts and practice visual arts Africa. In May 2012, he was invited to the Tournament. Everyone is asked to register in Alexandria Film Festival, in Egypt, and the in Westchester County. County Center in White Plains on February Criminal, Medicaid/Medicare Fraud Matters and music until he focused on filmmaking 65th Festival de Cannes and its cinemas du advance, equipment and score sheets will be th Arab Rotterdam Festival, in The Netherlands. 8 . There will be over 200 different brews to which he considers the aggregate of all these monde section winning the Eclair Prize for provided. If you have a need for speed and it White-Collar Crime & Healthcare Prosecutions He also contributes to Variety, in the United seems the way my daughters drive, then you try; I’m getting thirsty already… arts because he can reach out to more audi- his script Song of Tlous. His short film Zebu of The Katonah Museum of Art is holding States, and is the film critic of Variety Arabia will want to check out Grand Prix’s newest Calling all tweens and teens, come and ences through his films. In Madama Esther, Dadilahy was screened in France’s Clermont six-session art workshops for children 3 T. 914.948.0044 F.914.686.4873 ( http://varietyarabia.com/ ), in the United st addition for racing enthusiasts of all ages. make an awesome and adorable Penguin Luck, like many contemporary African Ferrand International Short Film Festival to 5 five years of age through January 21 . Arab Emirates (UAE), the Al-Masry Al-Youm It features an 80 foot long slot track with Backpack Nametag from Duct Tape at The filmmakers, present a story that can happen 2013 among other films festivals. For more information give them a call at th Website ( http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/ adjustable speeds, promising fun for racers Field Library in Peekskill on January 27 . It any day. 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Janet DiFiore cleared Officer Hess and the young white males who had been allegedly Michael Sussman - Civil Rights Champion Mount Pleasant Police of any wrongdoing promised political patronage jobs by County in the death of Henry, Federal Depositions Executive Rob Astorino. Presumably the By NANCY KING rights violated. DJ Henry. At the heart of that case lies the clearly have proven otherwise. In addition District Attorney may have also had a hand While based in the Orange County question as to whether the Mount Pleasant to that case, Mr. Sussman is handling a dis- in this termination as well since the fraud Fifty years after President town of Goshen, Michael Sussman has been Police Department filed a false account of crimination case for a former Westchester investigator and her staff may have uncov- Lyndon B. Johnson signed a fixture down here in Westchester since the events of that night leading up to the County Department of Social Services ered alleged impropriety by the Westchester the Civil Rights Act into October of 2010 when he was retained by the death of DJ Henry. While a Grand Jury (DSS) worker who exposed the termination County District Attorney in helping her law, the face of Civil Rights family of murdered Pace University student convened at the behest of District Attorney of minority workers who were replaced by in America has dramatically Continued on page 8 changed. What was originally intended to level equality between African-Americans and whites has 50 years on become much broader and much more complicated. Civil Rights now encompass the rights of women, same-sex marriage, employee rights, 1st Amendment rights, and the seem- ingly never-ending reach government has in the lives of private citizens. Not surpris- ingly, there are few attorneys who will wade into the weeds of protecting these rights. PALOMINO However, Goshen-based attorney Michael Sussman has earned the reputation as one of the nation’s most fearless and principled Chef Rafael Palomino Civil Rights attorneys. Presenting the Cuisine of Spain and Latin America The 59-year-old Harvard trained lawyer first burst onto the scene in 1981 at the age of 29 when he was retained by the Yonkers NAACP. At that time, the NAACP alleged RESERVE NOW FOR that Yonkers was segregating their residents Easter, April 20th • Mother’s Day, May 11th Easter, April 20th • Mother’s Day May 11th by where they lived and attended school. Special Mother’s Day Menu Starting @ 11AM - Call For Details So with just three years of experience after ITALIAN CUISINE law school, Sussman brought forth a suit Zagat Rated “Excellent” 3 Course Prix Fixe Brunch $27.95 against the City of Yonkers, the Yonkers Includes Unlimited Sangria and Passed Hors D’Oeuvres Board of Education, the State of New York, Voted “Best Italian Restaurant ” Westchester Magazine, 2006 and HUD. The case, presided over by Judge OPEN 7 DAYS 3 Course Prix Fixe Sunday Dinner $32 Leonard Sands dragged on for 27 years and Mon.-Thurs. Noon - 10PM • Fri. Sat. & Sun. Noon -11PM ( Excludes Mother’s Day ) rocked Yonkers to its very core by bank- RESERVE NOW FOR HOLIDAY PARTIES 2 PARTY ROOMS AVAIL. SEATING 75 & 100 rupting the city. But, in the end justice was 914.630.7871 served; Yonkers was deemed to desegregate 914.779.4646 OPEN 7 DAYS- LUNCH & DINNER its neighborhoods and its schools. It was the www.ciaoeastchester.com www.PALOMINOLARCHMONT.com case that put Michael Sussman on the map Ciao • 5-7 JOHN ALBANESE PLACE, EASTCHESTER, NY 10709 141 CHATSWORTH AVE., LARCHMONT as a champion of those who are having their Page 8 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN Thursday, APRIL 17, 2014

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seem like it. It was enough of a question that officials. We need to start visiting court track fifty-years-ago when he signed the Michael Sussman - Civil Rights Champion Mr. Sussman went ahead and filed suit upon proceedings and observing whether justice Civil Rights Act into law but 50-years later Continued from page 7 years ago. Since forming the party and Zherka’s behalf. That suit is winding its way is being served or whether our DA’s and we’ve become so much more than just blacks holding rallies, Zherka has been a target through the layers of the judicial onion and judges are indeed administering justice or are or whites. We’re a nation that really hasn’t long-time nanny receive public assistance of multiple investigations by the IRS and will be determined at a later date. they in a case just for a “win”. We need to achieved our potential in the area of equal benefits. The fraud investigator was termi- st has seen some long term lending institu- In the meantime Michael Sussman stand up for the reckless regard for human rights for all. Until we actually meet that nated on December 31 , 2013. tions that he had been conducting business tackles one Civil Rights case after another. life and begin questioning the use of deadly goal, you can bet that Michael Sussman will Sussman is also defending Westchester with for years, suddenly shy away from After a meaningful conversation on the air force that it becoming all too common in be defending those rights one case at a time. County businessman and publisher Sam on Wednesday with Adam Bradley and me, police work and we need to hold our District doing business with him. Is Zherka being Nancy King is a freelancer residing in Zherka in a case that sees Zherka’s First Sussman came across loud and clear that Attorneys accountable for what they choose punished for his political beliefs and his Westchester County. Amendment rights violated after he formed ability to voice them publicly; it sure does as Americans we need to protect our rights to try. the Westchester County Tea Party several by questioning the decisions of our elected President Johnson was on the right PEOPLE Iconic New England Author-Naturalist Peter Matthiessen Leaves Behind Rich Literary Legacy

By LEE DANIELS a subtle reminder that there is no time like An excerpt from a short story in his literature, the juxtaposition of the ideal of the present to act on ideas or convictions. 1986 collection, On the River Styx (1986), man living harmoniously with the wild on Last week, the world lost In his New York Times obituary on about a cat-and-mouse game between our planet, while at the same time, threat- an icon of the slowly fading th Matthiessen, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt an island-dwelling white trapper and an ening its future. One of the pioneers of the generation of 20 century quoted a 2002 interview by The Guardian escaped black convict, provides a lively illus- ecological movement on our planet, his American renaissance in which Matthiessen said, on the subject tration of his intimate relationship with and words echo the plight of the eternal struggle men. Ivy-educated, veteran, of Zen, “We tend to daydream all the time, familiarity with nature: for balance between the two forces of nature, naturalist/explorer, prolific author, and speculating about the future and dwelling on “Ocean Island is long and large, spread- an awareness that each of us would do well to follower of Zen Buddhist philosophy Peter the past. Zen practice is about appreciating ing down some four miles from the delta, keep in our hearts and minds. Matthiessen, aged 86, was the prototypic your life in the moment…we are beset by southwest toward Cape Romaine. The true “No species but man, so far as it is Yankee gentleman, and a highly respected both the future and the past, and there is no land is narrow spine supporting red cedar, known, unaided by circumstance or climac- contributor to culture in both the arts and reality apart from the here and now.” cypress, yaupon, live oak, and the old-field tic change, has ever extinguished another, science, beginning with the publishing of his pine, and here and there a scattering of and certainly no species has ever devoured first story while still in college. Author of 30 books, both novel and non-fiction, including At Play in the Fields small palmettos. There are low ridges and itself, an accomplishment of which man After his years in Paris, Matthiessen of the Lord (1965), which was made into a open groves and clearings, and a core of appears quite capable. There is some comfort returned to the U.S. and published his first feature-length film, and Far Tortuga (1976), Born into a wealthy Manhattan family semi-tropic woods. Its south flank is salt in the notion that, however Homo sapiens novel, Race Rock (1954), and then, moving its lyrical form flowing around the patois of of Scandinavian heritage and raised in marsh and ocean beach, and to the north, contrives his own destruction, a few crea- to eastern Long Island, worked as a deep-sea turtle divers indigenous to the Caribbean, Greenwich, Conn., Matthiessen received a diked years ago above the tide, lies a vast, tures will survive in that ultimate wilderness commercial fisherman while continuing to Matthiessen possessed an almost encyclope- classical education and then after serving in brackish swamp.The swamp is grassy, like a he will leave behind, going on about their write. dic knowledge of marine life, as well as flora the Navy in the Pacific, went to Paris, where green-and-golden flooded plain, its distances ancient business in the mindless confidence Not long ago, I looked up Mr. and fauna on land, garnered by his study of he, along with fellow East Coast literati broken by lone, bony tress and hurricane that their own much older and more tolerant Matthiessen in Long Island, with the notion biology in college, followed by years of travel William Styron, George Plimpton, Tom dikes and sluice gates. Here, in a diadem of species will prevail.” that, as a fellow secondary-school alumnus, and exploration in places like the deep South, Guinzburg and George Plimpton, launched reedy ponds, and coot and rail and gallinule, Lee Daniels is Arts & Leisure writer for The he might be receptive to the idea of an Mexico, The Amazon River basin, and the and ran the Paris Review, at the same time and predators.” Westchester Guardian and editor for Kiev, interview. The post-it note with his address chronicling of his observations in short story, working as a case officer for the Central His 1959 book, Wildlife in America, Ukraine-based ICU. scribbled on it sits on a notepad on my desk, novel, and photographic essay. Intelligence Agency. echoes a recurring theme in Matthiessen’s PRO-LIFE

of propaganda promoting the bizarre best if and when it is safe to disclose your [HIV] The reader is told that HIV positive Pro-Choicers Give Children AIDS worldview of the abortion giant Planned status [emphasis added]…There is no right or people are oppressed by laws that say they Parenthood, which is perhaps the leading wrong way to have sex. Just have fun, explore must disclose. The brochure states: Part One of Four organization of the nine-month pro-choice and be yourself! … It is not always possible to Some countries have laws that say By CHRIS ROSTENBERG Happy and Hot,” which is available online. movement (a nine-month pro-choicer talk about to your partner(s) or to practice safer people living with HIV must tell their I urge readers to view it. supports abortion without qualification). sex – for example, … [if ] you don’t have access to sexual partner(s) about their status before If someone with the AIDS The brochure has cheerful images of young condoms or a safe place to have sex. The Healthy, Happy and Hot brochure having sex, even if they use condoms or only virus was about to have sex people jumping through the air with glee calls itself, “A guide for young people living The reader is informed that if they are engage in sexual activity with a low risk of with you, should they have before a colorful background which clashes with HIV to help them understand their HIV positive, sex is still acceptable: giving HIV to someone else … These laws to tell you about their virus dreadfully with its subject matter – young sexual rights, and live healthy, fun, happy Young people living with HIV may feel violate the rights of people living with HIV first? Planned Parenthood people with AIDS. The images look like a and sexually fulfilling lives.” Nothing is that sex is just not an option, but don’t worry by forcing them to disclose or face the pos- doesn’t think so. If the law said HIV positive Pepsi ad if the soda company had a bigger said of the health of people who don’t have — many young people living with HIV live sibility of criminal charges …. Every person people had to disclose their status to their advertising budget. The material was handed HIV because that is a group that stands to healthy, fun, happy and sexually fulfilling living with HIV is entitled to these rights partners before sex, is that a good law? out at a Girl Scout meeting at the United become sick should the Planned Parenthood lives. You can too, if you want to! … There are and they are necessary for the development Planned Parenthood thinks that such a law Nations at which parents were banned. advice be taken. “This guide is for … young lot’s [sic] of people who don’t mind whether and well being of all people and the societies should be overturned. Both these positions people living with HIV who are just starting Planned Parenthood in Healthy, Happy their partner(s) is HIV negative or positive… in which they live. are advanced in a Planned Parenthood “edu- and Hot reads: Being in a relationship with someone who to think about dating and sex … No matter Chris Rostenberg is a freelance writer. cational brochure” directed at young people You have the right to decide if, when, and has HIV is just as fulfilling and satisfying as who you are, this guide is for you!” Correspondence may be directed to ChrisRosty@ who are HIV positive called “Healthy, how to disclose your HIV status …. You know with anyone else…. The brochure is an impressive piece gmail.com. THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN Thursday, APRIL 17, 2014 Page 9

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However as far back as 1956 the first seed expanded to the National Football faith and baseball, offers an exclusive look Seeking Faith and Baseball might have planted with Clyde King and the League and other professional sports. at life inside the 2012 St. Louis Cardinals minor and major league teams he managed. Today, participants also include Olympic clubhouse with recurring spiritual themes Ballplayers, Fallibility and Finding God Kuhn approved and services now moved to and collegiate athletes, and, most recently, throughout are following God’s will, seeing ballparks beginning with the playoffs. By high-school athletes. the big picture, dealing with adversity, using By GLENN SLABY As it takes years to develop major league 1975, chapel programs existed within every Their goal, “is to provide an integrated one’s God-given abilities, and living out the level skill and maturity, the stress factors team. By 1978, continued growth estab- Christian life in both words and actions.” “Sport, properly directed, network of sports oriented clergy and lay must be unbearable. From temptations of lished and resulted in Chapel programs in develops character, makes a people to serve Catholic athletes, coaches John Sexton & others. Baseball as a abundance, coming with very generous the minor leagues, with winter ball in Latin man courageous, a generous and staff in the practice of their faith and to Road to God: Seeing Beyond the Game. “Sexton salaries and public appraisals, adorations, America and today, Japan. loser, and a gracious victor; utilize the unique platform given to them (President, New York University) shares ordinary human weakness enlarges the self “Spirituality teaches us, or has taught to reach the world for Jesus Christ and His some of his insights in this elegant medita- it refines the senses, gives to something greater, something that places intellectual penetration, and steels the will to most of us, how to deal with failure. We learn Church.” Their vision includes “providing tion on the ways in which baseball evokes the the self, the ego, above and beyond invinci- at a very young age that failure is the norm solid Catholic role models, organize retreats, essence of religion. Sexton explores parallels endurance. It is not merely a physical devel- bility, beyond the rules of society. Success in opment then. Sport, rightly understood, in life... errors are part of the game, part of days of reflection, reverse the moral crisis in between baseball and religion across topics the game, be it Pete Rose and gambling or its rigorous truth. … To deny our errors is sports today and to work with other Catholic such as sacred space and time, faith and is an occupation of the whole man, and drug and alcohol addictions or the use of while perfecting the body as an instrument to deny ourselves, for to be human is to be organizations and leadership. doubt, conversion, miracles, blessings and performing enhancing drugs or any player imperfect; somehow error-prone. To be There are a number of books focusing curses, saints and sinners, community, and of the mind, it also makes the mind itself a facing retirement and obsolescence at thirty- more refined instrument for the search and human is to ask unanswerable questions, to on Baseball and Spirituality. These include nostalgia. Baseball, like religion, ‘can awaken five, we all need spiritual grounding in all our persist in asking them, and to be broken and Jeremy Affledt, To Stir a Movement: Life, us to a dimension of life often missing in our communication of truth and helps man to endeavors reminding the self of our limita- achieve that end to which all others must ache for wholeness, as well as to hurt and Justice, and Major League Baseball. “Details contemporary world.’” tions in an unlimited universe. Something to try to find a way to healing through the Affledt’s transformation from an arrogant, be subservient, the service and praise of his Glenn Slaby is married and has one son. A to remind the self of our humanness, the hurt. To be human is to embody a paradox, self-centered military brat to a fully commit- Creator.” Pope Pius XII, Sport at the Service former accountant with an MBA, he is a free- earthliness of our faults, the consistency of for according to that ancient vision, we are ted follower of Christ.” of the Spirit, July 29, 1945.tt lancer with The Westchester Guardian, writes our incompleteness and absolutism of our “less than the gods, more than the beasts, yet We forget about the human side of Rob Rains. Intentional Walk: An Inside part-time, and struggles with mental illness, yet temporary bodies our temporary uniqueness, somehow also both.” www.Baseballchapel. ball players as we focus on salary contracts Look at the Faith that Drives the St. Louis works at the New Rochelle Public Library and our non-invincibility. From dust to dust. Too org Cardinals. “In a book that’s equal parts and what happens between the chalk lines. many - like Lenny Dykstra – may fail to get at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Harrison, New York. Sometimes the human fallibility is displayed, Today, 210 teams, all major and life’s bearings in time and go to the underside minor leagues (and some independent through tragedy via Roberto Clemente’s sac- of our culture. (See my article “Baseball and rifice or through shortcomings - a player’s league teams) have Chapel programs. Mental Health”, October 11, 2012.) Approximately 3,000 players, coaches, all too human weakness of an addiction to Spirituality can grow with failure drugs, alcohol, gambling, etcetera. managers, trainers, office staff and other if one lets the spirit in. For all those team personnel, umpires and members of This is a game, where every performance, involved with the game, there is Baseball the media participate/attend each week. every player, every position is inundated with Chapel (www.baseballchapel.org ) - an The Chapel is responsible for the appoint- statistics from every conceivable angle. There internationally recognized organization/ ment and oversight of team chapel leaders is no escape from being human, imperfect, WESTCHESTER COMMUNITY FOR HUMANISTIC JUDAISM ministry for both Major and Minor (over 500 volunteers) and 8 full-time staff being error free and reaching the human goal League Baseball. Their mission is to members conducting the daily ministry of the inhuman and God-like perfection. PRESENTS FOR YOM HASHOAH bring encouragement to people in the operations. Baseball Chapel does not seek “Baseball teaches us, or has taught most world of professional baseball through nor provide access to the media protecting of us, how to deal with failure. We learn at the Gospel so that some may become privacy of all participants. a very young age that failure is the norm followers of Jesus Christ and see deeply For Catholic and of course all in baseball and, precisely because we have committed players use their platform to Christians there’s also Catholic Athlete’s failed, we hold in high regard those who fail influence people around the world. for Christ ( www.catholicathletes- less often—those who hit safely in one out They officially began when Detroit forchrist.org ). Started in 2006 by Ray of three chances and become star players. I Sportswriter, Watson Spoelstra, approached McKenna with assistance from 5 time also find it fascinating that baseball, alone in Bowie Kuhn in 1973. Prior to that, in the Kanas City All Star, Mike Sweeney. The sport, considers errors to be part of the game, 60’s, players from the Cubs and Twins had nonprofit organization started serving part of its rigorous truth.” Francis T. Vincent, initiated services for road trips at hotels. players in Major League Baseball, then Jr., Former Commissioner of Baseball CREATIVE DISRUPTION Guest Speaker ESTHER GEIZHALS Whither The Internet? Part 2 Services such as the cable companies or A Holocaust survivor reveals enduring, as a young woman, the telephone companies may charge high By JOHN F. McMULLEN content on the Internet to be treated equally. volume users a different rate than other users years of nightmare experiences, journeying from Poland to What that meant was that all material on for their traffic, and Czechoslovakia in concentration camps, including Auschwitz The Internet as we have the Internet was treated the same as far as known it, since the advent Conversely, companies providing appli- Saturday, April 26, 7 PM delivery speed was concerned. There was no cations may choose to pay the carriers more of the World Wide Web special processing or rates for large users – Community Unitarian Church-468 Rosedale Avenue, White Plains graphic browser over 20 for guaranteed high speed service. nothing like UPS’ different rates for “next Already there are reports of both years ago, is in a state of flux, day delivery” vs “two-day” or “five-day.” No charge for admission, but donations are welcome. due to a number of factors. Netflix and Apple reaching agreements That has all changed with the Court For more information visit the website Most obvious is a court ruling over- with Comcast, the nation’s cable provider, deciding that the Department of Commerce to guarantee priority servicing in the event of www.wchj.org turning the Department of Commerce did not have the right to require equal treat- mandated “net neutrality” which required all ment. Therefore: Continued on page 10 Page 10 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN Thursday, APRIL 17, 2014

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Whither The Internet? and technology analyst Esther Dyson as Internet entirely in times of national unrest. assume that true privacy exists. case of major exposures, be fined. founding chairwoman) and under contract While most are aware that China does this As for security, it seems that every Require broadband providers (cable, Continued from page 9 with the United States Department of as a matter of policy and that Russia has month, a major retailer, such as Target, is satellite, and telephone companies) to notify Internet traffic jams or other slowdowns. Commerce. Now, since a majority of Internet recently done this during the Ukrainian forced to reveal a security breech that jeop- all customers of those companies that receive There are, of course, two ways to look users are outside of the United States, there crisis, to recognize such actions as justifiable ardizes its clients. Just last week, New York premium connection guarantees. at this change. The one that is most heard is strong international pressure to move this raises great concern in a free society. Times technology writer Farhad Manjoo Congress should allow no restrictions is that the changes are another example of function to an international organization. These concerns have led groups to try to wrote in a column, “Users’ Stark Reminder: on free Internet speech as a result of any favorite status being given to corporations While that change may make sense at mobilize opposition to any transfer of power As Web Grows, It Grows Less Secure,” transfer of Internet administration to an rather than individuals. However, a case may first blush, there is strong feeling against it to the ITU. For example, the “Center for that a flaw in encryption systems called international body. be made, as venture capitalist and technol- within the US, as exemplified by columns Rights” has prepared a video, “The ITU could “Heartbleed” has been making user commu- All changes or innovations are certainly ogy pundit Stewart Alsop made recently in the Wall Street Journal and elsewhere– put the Internet behind closed doors” (http:// nication, thought protected, unsafe for the not negative. There are exciting possibili- on my radio show, that this is simply Apple and this feeling is not based in pure jingoism www.whatistheitu.org/), detailing the last few years. ties “around the corner” and questions to and Netflix paying a premium to insure that (such as “We invented it; we own it,” etc.). The dangers of the secession of any power over So it seems that the Internet, which we be addressed -- What will the impact of these their paying customers receive uninterrupted most logical international group to take the Internet to the ITU. felt, obviously erroneously, to be secure and changes be? What will the impact of IoT be? service. Both conflicting views have merit to on this responsibility is the International One can certainly understand the desire private is not. It also seems that there will no What will Virtual Reality bring to the Internet? them – it will be up to both the public and Telecommunication Union (“ITU”) of other countries, some our political or longer be equal treatment for all traffic and What impact will the TV systems of Amazon, its legislators to analyze the impacts of this agency of the United Nations and there is competitive adversaries, to have the admin- that, possibly, freedom of Internet speech Apple & Google have on our Internet use? Will change and take remedial action, if neces- concern that giving up any Internet-related istration of the Internet removed from US may be in jeopardy. we yearn for the “good old days?” In short, what sary (of course, based on the performance of our functions to this group would open the door control. One can also appreciate US concern What can we do about all this? Public will our Internet future be? Stay tuned! current Congress, this may be wishful thinking). to the cession of further control to that group that any giving up of control could lead to an outcry is a start. We can demand that: Next week -- Whither The Internet? Another change under consideration – and that possibility is troubling, to say the Internet where censorship is legitimized and Government surveillance can only Part 3 is the administration (or, at least, partial least. freedom of Internet speech is limited both be performed on US citizens, pursuant to Creative Disruption is a continuing series administration) of the Internet itself. Anytime that the possibility of inter- internationally and even domestically. an individual warrant (similar to the phone examining the impact of constantly accelerat- “Domain names” and “IP Addresses” (the 12 national control over the Internet comes up, Recent developments have also led to tap warrants that govern criminal cases being ing technology on the world around us. These digit unique number for each device on the some representative of another country, often greater focus on the bugaboos of privacy and investigated by NYPD). changers normally happen under our personal Internet) have always been assigned within the French, is quoted as saying something security. The Edward Snowden revelations Require that an agency of the radar until we find that the world as we knew the United States – first by an individual, like “The United States would have to give up have shown us that our privacy was com- Department of Commerce be set up to it is no more. Jon Postel, a researcher at the University of its extreme view of the sanctity of what it defines promised long ago by our own intelligence perform periodic surprise security audits Southern California and later by “ICANN,” as ‘free speech’” – and that makes any proposed agencies. While President Obama has of all companies that sell via Internet John F. McMullen is a writer, poet, college pro- (“Internet Corporation for Assigned Names control a non-starter for the US. The ITU introduced new restrictions on government or maintain electronic client records. fessor and radio host. Links to other writings, and Numbers”), incorporated in California has recently recognized the rights of gov- surveillance, confidence in privacy has been Companies failing such audits should have Podcasts, & Radio Broadcasts at www. on September 30, 1998, (with entrepreneur ernments to restrict access to sites or the shaken to the point that many will never the failure reported to the press and, in the johnmac13.com.

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though British, manages the American with the premium from her late husband’s Ordinary Lives accent perfectly, and possesses a subtle beauty insurance. as well as an effective look of repressed mel- That husband’s photograph on the By JOHN SIMON ancholy, from which she can vividly leap to wall, which takes on some significance in euphoria or sink into despondency, the end, is the revival’s one innovation, even Lorraine Hansberry’s “A As for Ms. Rose, she owns a zest, a if it makes the play’s final touch rather anti- Raisin in the Sun” is a good youthful swagger and easy charm, which climactic. The physical production—Mark and significant play about will not be gainsaid, and barely puts up with Thompson (set), Ann Roth (costumes) and blacks in 1959, but does it grandmother Lena’s admonishments. You Brian MacDevitt (lighting)—is convincing, need to be revived every ten cannot resist either her spiritedness or her and Leon’s direction once again savvy. But years? Especially so by the same director as in pouting, which in other hands might seem whether this outing was necessary, even with 2004, Kenny Leon, even if he strives to make schematic, and you cannot help rooting for Washington dutifully executing Walter’s this one a trifle different. But difference, alas, her. But so much for the production’s obvious prescribed “nervous movements and erratic is not synonymous with improvement. pluses. speech habits,” remains open to debate. At this point, going into the play’s plot Most unfelicitous is the replacement A Raisin in the Sun production image by seems just as otiose as rehearsing the plot of as Mama Lena of Diahann Carroll, who and courtesy of Bridgette Lacombe. “Hamlet” or “King Lear,” which is not to say couldn’t hack it, with LaTanya Richardson Venue: Ethel Barrymore Theatre, that “Raisin” is on the same exalted level. But Jackson, an actress lacking or discard- 243 West 47th Street, New York, it is a play that holds the interest as much for ing matriarchal dignity, and substituting NY 10026. Tickets online: www. its social as its literary value, and manages broad, meretricious farcicalness. Although MyBoxOfficeTickets.com; by telephone: to seize your attention as if it were new and David Cromer as Karl Lindner, Bryce Clyde Jenkins as Traves Younger, LaTanya Richardson less culpable, Sean Patrick Thomas, as the Call (855) 305-4862. suspenseful to you. That feeling of renewed Jackson as Lena Younger, Anike Noni Rose as Beneatha Younger, Denzel Washington as Walter student Asagai, Beneatha’s Nigerian suitor, novelty and suspense is what makes a classic, Younger, and Sophie Okonedo as Ruth Younger in a “Raisin in the Sun. ought to have greater appeal. The other I have no such doubts about “The Realistic and “Raisin” has it, even if it could have characters are adequate, including the noted Joneses” by Will Eno, a playwright beloved waited another decade or two for revival. its chief drawing point, the star quality of The aspects in which the present revival director David Cromer, surprising in the by some critics, whose work I have either Denzel Washington, who, at 59, with the is unassailable is the casting of Walter’s long- Specifically, the 2004 revival with small role of the white tenants’ representative, deplored or simply avoided. This play, character of Walter Lee Younger upped for suffering wife, Ruth, with Sophie Okonedo Audra MacDonald, Phylicia Rashad and, trying to bribe the Youngers into not moving acclaimed at its Yale premiere and now him from 35 to 40, makes questionable the (remembered from the movie “Hotel yes, Puff Daddy, was easily as good as the into the house in a white neighborhood that transferred to Broadway, strikes me as current one, and in some ways even superior. man’s naivety, and unlikely his having a sister, Rwanda”), and of the rebellious Beneatha Lena has, somewhat improbably, purchased The most obvious drawback is ironically Beneatha or Benny, who is a mere 20. with Anika Noni Rose. Ms. Okonedo, Continued on page 11 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN Thursday, APRIL 17, 2014 Page 11

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lament such waste of good talent. Venue: Lyceum Theatre, 149 West 45th Ordinary Lives Sam Gold, the fashionable director, Street, New York, NY 10026. Tickets : Call has staged unfussily, especially good if you TeleCharge at (212) 239-6200 or (800)432- Continued from page 10 fancy scenes played full-front out into the 7250 reveling in deliberate banality and is egre- audience. David Zinn’s set is intentionally John Simon has written for over 50 years on giously unnecessary from beginning to end. rudimentary but framed by impressively tall theatre, film, literature, music and fine arts for the Perhaps especially the end, in which its evergreens. Characteristic costumes by Kaye Hudson Review, New Leader, New Criterion, four characters, contemplating in suburban Voyce and carefully naturalistic lighting by National Review, New York Magazine, Opera lounge chairs the night sky, exchange slightly Mark Barton only make what is said and News, Weekly Standard, Broadway.com and off-kilter trivia, even a love of mints. done that much more mundane. Bloomberg News. He reviews books for the New All of this is perfectly mundane and middle-aged Bob and Jennifer, and the That they are very scrupulously enacted by, I only wonder about the epithet in the York Times Book Review and Washington Post. lacks any real interest, unless you find the young Pony and John, neighbors in exurbia. respectively, the well-spoken Tracy Letts, title. Who is realistic here, the characters or To learn more, visit the www.JohnSimon- preposterous ramblings of the younger Bob is somewhat peculiar and testy, the amiable Toni Collette, the cute Marisa the author? And is realistic meant as a com- Uncensored.com website. man, a near lunatic, piquant. We have here Jennifer is reasonable but humdrum, Pony Tomei, and the persuasively nutty Michael pliment or merely a statement of fact? And two married couples, both called Jones: the is an airhead, and John is, well, crackers. C. Hall only make matters worse, as you in any case, why should we care? CURRENT COMMENTARY

elite-level members of airline loyalty programs wife, who seems to receive PreCheck status The answer, as far as I can tell, is that the or through certain of the government’s trusted more often than I do. So what gets us into that TSA is extending PreCheck screening to Checking Out PreCheck traveler programs, such as Global Entry, which line when we arrive at the terminal? Continued on page 12 By Larry M. Elkin specifically on JetBlue, my boarding pass allows expedited re-entry after travel abroad. 3 declares I am “PreCheck” or “Pre ” as the PreCheck piggybacked onto that program, Unless you are very young, TSA has trademarked the program. This but is marginally cheaper ($85 for five years as you probably remember a designation entitles me to a much faster and opposed to $100 for Global Entry) and does time when you didn’t select more convenient security line, in which shoes not require that the applicant hold a passport. THE ROMA BUILDING a pair of shoes for an airline stay on passengers’ feet, computers stay in NEXUS and SENTRI program participants COMMERICAL SPACE FOR RENT flight based on how easy they bags, and passengers walk through a simple qualify for PreCheck as well. were to remove. metal detector rather than a full-body scanner. Those who apply for PreCheck directly The Transportation Security(Most liquids greater than about three ounces must visit an enrollment center in person to Administration procedures that came into are still not allowed in carry-ons, however.) provide valid identify documents and their effect after 9/11 have remained in place, Not every airport offers such a line, and I am fingerprints. If the applicants are approved, however, and most of us who fly regularly not always in it at those that do. But it’s gener- they receive Known Traveler Numbers already have those shoes off, along with our ally a pleasant alternative to the TSA’s regular (KTNs), which they then provide to their liquids disposed of and laptop computers out routine. airlines when booking air travel. At the of their cases, before we reach the security PreCheck was established in 2011, but approximately 115 U.S. airports that par- checkpoint’s conveyor belt. only opened to applications from the public ticipate, those travelers will typically enjoy the Recently, I have noticed a change. last year; before that, it was available to some faster, shoes-on security line. Sometimes when I check in for a flight, I have never paid the $85 fee. Nor has my - FLEETWOOD RENOVATED APARTMENTS FOR RENT Prime Yorktown Location Great Visibility • Centrally Located OFFICE SPACE: 470 Sq. Ft. Rent $850/Month 1160 Sq. Ft. Rent $1650/ Month

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Checking Out PreCheck when they fly on other airlines. Members of screening in order to retain a certain element the military are also eligible for PreCheck of randomness.” Also keep in mind that not Continued from page 11 without undergoing the normal application all airports currently offer PreCheck. process. American Express Platinum has Genuine road warriors, especially those random passengers on a flight-by-flight basis. extended its cardholders a credit for the $85 whose home airport offers the service, will When these passengers receive their boarding application fee, though those interested will probably appreciate PreCheck, even if they passes, a TSA PreCheck logo appears, alerting still need to apply through normal channels. must pay for the privilege. It’s nice to head passengers to their temporary status. This With all these potential entries into the to the airport without having to carefully assessment is based on information the pas- line, some of those who paid for PreCheck consider your choice of footwear. sengers already provide when booking their status complain the advantages in speed are ticket, which the TSA says will be retained often lost. Other critics of the program have by the agency for no more than seven days. expressed concern that pulling random people Children under 12 and adults over 75, it has for PreCheck introduces a higher element of been reported, have a higher than average Photo by and courtesy of Dion Hinchcliffe Larry M. Elkin, CPA, CFP®, has provided risk to the procedure, while still others worry chance of getting this sort of bonus PreCheck security check, albeit less intrusive than method is imperfect, it seems to be an indica- personal financial and tax counseling to a sophis- about the privacy of those who apply, consid- treatment. usual; other passengers benefit because the tion that the status quo may be in the process ticated client base since 1986. After six years with ering that the TSA has exempted itself from low-risk PreCheck customers do not add to of shifting once again. Arthur Andersen, where he was a senior manager There are a few other ways to end up in revealing which agencies are asked to review the length of the standard screening queue. I don’t think the cost and inconvenience for personal financial planning and family wealth the PreCheck line besides applying to be there. an applicant’s information. Certain airports are using “managed inclusion” TSA Administrator John Pistole said in of applying for PreCheck is worthwhile for planning, he founded his own firm in Hastings on I think PreCheck is a sensible approach to randomly assign passengers in line to the January, “TSA Pre-check is enabling us to occasional travelers, except maybe those with Hudson, N.Y., in 1992. That firm grew steadily to making air travel easier for at least some PreCheck entry based on capacity. Some move away from a one-size-fits-all approach extremely limited patience. If your extreme and became the Palisades Hudson organization, passengers – especially the ones who fly airlines are also extending PreCheck to some to transportation security, as we look for more Type A personality traits make you eager which moved to Scarsdale, N.Y., in 2002. The most often – and faster for almost everyone. of their frequent fliers, though passengers who opportunities to provide the most effective to ante up, take note that the TSA warns firm expanded to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., in 2005 PreCheck customers are still subject to a opt in this way are not cleared for PreCheck security in the most efficient way.” Even if the “no individual will be guaranteed expedited and to Atlanta in 2008. MUSIC

as lightning-bolts fly from Dickey’s axe. The band closes with their classic “Whipping THE SOUNDS Allman Brothers “Live at Great Woods” Post” (11:41) Haynes erupts, and Betts’ guitar explodes powerfully. DVD (2014 Edition)Epic Legacy So there you have it, the cover state’s OFBLUE there’s (approximately) eighty minutes of By Bob Putignano Dixon’s “Hoochie Coochie music here, but my clock and math say it’s Man” features Haynes’ somewhat more like ninety, which is fine by me. uncomfortable vocal as Betts strikes There are virtually no liner-notes, and The Allman Brothers reunited in ’89 The video clarity is very good, though hard with a riveting guitar break. what little there is are not credited. Also and were signed to Epic Records where they the camera work is sketchy; the audio Gregg Allman’s “Get On With missing is the production credit, but I would released five new (studio and live) albums is very thin sounding especially on the Your Life” is a slow blues with safely suspect that the great Tom Dowd over a span of about six years (1990-1995.) bottom end. Eleven songs are included, Allman’s vocal, seemingly a new parented these renegades on this fine night Five years later Epic also issued “Peakin’ at the eight of which are relatively short, only replacement for “Stormy Monday of music. Bottom line, would I call this DVD Beacon” in 2000. three songs login at over ten minutes Blues” and it’s here that there’s a one of the best ABB performances, no. Yet “In Memory of Elizabeth Reed,” During this time Epic captured a live little dueling guitar work between the band successfully transitioned (another “Jessica,” and “Whipping Post.” performance at the Great Woods amphi- Haynes and Betts. Betts shreds round) of personnel changes remarkably well, theater nearby to Boston. It was previously The show opens with (as expected) the opening of his “In Memory of making this stimulating set advisable to own. released, but was flawed with band-member “Statesboro Blues” where I thought Elizabeth Reed” the longest track Enjoy. interviews during some of the performances. Haynes struggled with his slide playing, on this DVD (20:29,) Haynes Fast-forward to 2014 with an updated editing but both Betts and Allman are on follows creatively and sharp, then For fifteen years Bob Putignano has been pivotal of that same performance that now flows the mark. Betts’ “Blue Sky” catches Betts returns to counter Haynes at WFDU with his Sounds of Blue radio show: without interruptions. This ’91 edition of fire though Dickey’s voice sounds a wildly, the drummers get a good www.SoundsofBlue.com - Previously a senior the band features founding members Gregg bit ragged; fortunately he’s aided by workout then the band returns to contributing editor at BluesWax, Blues Revue, Allman, Dickey Betts, Butch Trucks, and Allman and Haynes vocals. The two the theme with a quick ending. and Goldmine magazines, and Music Editor for Jaimoe with new additions Warren Haynes, acoustic songs; “Midnight Rider” and Dickey’s “Revival” sung by Gregg The Westchester Guardian. Allen Woody and Marc Quinones. The band the traditional “Going Down the Road” Allman is next, followed by Betts’ performs well, but I found the chemistry are very satisfying where it’s interest- instrumental “Jessica” (12:36) Putignano can be contacted at: bob8003@yahoo. between guitarists Betts and Haynes to be ing to watch most of the band seated, where there’s nice interplay by the com lacking with few dueling guitar segments, and playing and harmonizing in front of the entire band that includes a (new) Bob is celebrating 15 + years on the air at WFDU neither guitarist looked each-other in the eyes. audience. Willie funky passage that works neatly http://wfdu.fm SOCIETY Assemblymember Shelley Mayer and Workforce Development Institute Host an Interactive Forum on Women in Leadership YONKERS, NY -- Over seventy women Stewart-Cousins and Assemblymember of building personal connections with percent of Fortune 500 CEOs are women. “In New York State, women are 51% attended an interactive forum last night, Shelley Mayer, attendees learned from individuals. With attendees employed in fields ranging of the population, yet we are vastly under- April 10, 2014, in Yonkers at the Hudson women in leadership positions about what Although women represent fifty from teaching to not-for profit manage- represented in professional leadership River Museum hosted by Assemblymember it takes to lead and be successful. Executive one-percent of the population, they hold ment to union organizing, this forum positions. As the first woman in New York Shelley Mayer and Workforce Development Consultant, Ginny Corsi, provided infor- just 18.5 percent of the seats in the U.S. provided aspiring leaders concrete informa- State history to lead a legislative confer- Institute. With opening remarks from Senate mation to attendees on the potential to Congress, 21 percent of the seats in the tion about how to become more successful ence in Albany, I know firsthand how Democratic Conference Leader Andrea learn from challenges and importance New York state legislature, and a mere 4.6 in their careers. Continued on page 13 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN Thursday, APRIL 17, 2014 Page 13

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Mayer and Workforce Development Institute Host an Forum on Women in Leadership Continued from page 12 important it is to bring the voices of women to the table. We are the experts in what we Diana O’Neill need and we cannot sit on the sidelines and let others speak for us. As women leaders, Holistic Health Services we must take every opportunity to encour- age other women to step up and take on leadership positions in the corporate world, politics, nonprofits and in our communi- ties,” said Democratic Conference Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins. Assemblymember Mayer said, “Women in Yonkers and throughout Westchester must have ‘seats at the table’ as we build our communities and strengthen our economy. This important forum provided concrete suggestions as well as Assemblymember Shelley Mayer speaking with panelists (from left to right): Nereida Quiles, an opportunity to share our successes and Director of Admission for Adult Education, Concordia College; Taryn Duffy, Director of Public failures together. As a diverse and strong Affairs, Empire City Casino; Maria Kercado, Vice President, 1199SEIU UHWE; Shawyn group of women, we will continue to work Patterson Howard, President & Chief Executive Officer, Yonkers Family YMCA; Florence together to ensure our voices are heard in McCue, At-Large NYSUT Director. every sector of our community.” Mary Jane Bertram, Regional Director “Women leadership events are vital to the Director explained,”’Behind every suc- at Workforce Development Institute, said, continued advancement of women and I cessful woman is herself.’ Once women “The Workforce Development Institute’s am honored to participate as a panelist,” understand that they need not rely on Women’s Initiative brings women together said Taryn Duffy, Director of Public Affairs others to be nice to them or to be fair to statewide to explore work-related topics at Empire City Casino. “We owe so much them, they no longer see themselves as such as networking, mentoring, work/life to the women before us who blazed the victims. Success starts from within and balance and leadership. We are excited trail. We can continue their work and grows with determination, persistence, hard about the event in Yonkers and applaud legacies by paying it forward and support- work and never accepting, ‘No, you can’t.’” Assemblymember Shelley Mayer for her ing each other in every way possible. Each Nereida Quiles, Director of leadership and dedication.” single achievement of a woman ultimately Admission for Adult Education Concordia serves to broaden the path to success for all Taryn Duffy, Director of Public College, said, “I have learned by listening to women.” Affairs at Empire City Casino, said, the experiences of others and I look forward Florence McCue, At-large NYSUT to sharing my experience and insights.”

GovernmentLEGISLATION Section I will journey with you Parts of Latimer’s Testing Accountability during challenging times and help you find the psychic energy Legislation Included in Final NYS Budget to cope with whatever arises. Counseling • Energy Healing • Hypnotism WESTCHESTER, NY -- Included in of students in school districts throughout the tests and adding to the frustration surround- the recently passed, 4th consecutive on time state. Since testing costs money and time and ing the implementation of the new standards. Spiritual & Psychic Healing budget, were several alterations to the flawed therefore requires resources, I am glad that Latimer, the Senate Education By Appointment, only implementation of the Common Core stan- we addressed some of these issues in the state Committee’s Ranking Democrat continued, dards. One of the elements that was included budget,” Latimer explained. “The information “The inclusion of this concept in the budget Free consultation given on first visit. came from legislation sponsored by Senator collected through the provisions in the budget is the culmination of bipartisan efforts that George Latimer, that would require the will provide a snapshot about public resources grew out of the grassroots throughout the State Education Commissioner to promul- for educational testing and start a conversation State. While some of the testing is necessary 914.630.1928 gate regulations regarding the amount of about the appropriate distribution of resources and has been in place for a long time, adding time devoted to state administered required for assessments and other essential compo- more on top of that is something that we assessments, the amount of time devoted to nents of a sound, basic education.” should be very careful about and this budget, standardized assessments not required by As teachers and students are still famil- under Governor Cuomo’s leadership, gives Holistic Health Services law and the amount of time devoted to test iarizing themselves with the Common Core the public a chance to weigh in on the needs 1600 Harrison Ave., Ste.307A, preparation. standards, they are spending more time pre- of any additional testing.” Mamaroneck, NY 10543 “My bill calls for a review and analysis of paring for tests and limiting what goes on in the costs associated with statewide assessments the classroom to the materials on standardized Page 14 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN Thursday, APRIL 17, 2014

GOVERNance Assemblymembers Clark & Abinanti Call for Car-Only Lanes on New Tappan Zee Bridge QUEENS, NY and TARRYTOWN, said Assemblymembers Clark and Abinanti on both urban freeways and rural interstates. NY -- Assemblymembers Barbara Clark in the letter. “Separating trucks and passenger “We believe the Tappan Zee Bridge (D-Queens Village) and Tom Abinanti cars into dedicated lanes will no doubt have is uniquely qualified for dedicated car-only (D-Greenburgh/Mt. Pleasant) sent a letter an effect on reducing congestion and improv- lanes. Often, conditions on the bridge - to Governor Andrew Cuomo and Executive ing safety.” including strength of wind - will determine Director of the New York Thruway Authority The letter highlights examples including traffic management and speed on the bridge,” Thomas Madison calling for dedicated the Lewiston-Queenston Bridge, connect- said the pair of Assemblymembers. “During a car-only lanes on the new Tappan Zee Bridge. ing the United States and Canada over the time where trucks are getting bigger and cars Abinanti represents the Tarrytown side of the Niagara River, which has a 1.2 mile lane dedi- are getting smaller, it is appropriate that you bridge and Clark drives over the bridge several cated to truck traffic - separate from passenger consider the best possible ideas to reduce the times a week. cars. The Assemblymembers note that New stress on drivers and increase the safety for all.” “We believe that having a new Jersey has dedicated lanes on the New Jersey SOURCE: Assemblyman Thomas Abinanti’s bridge presents new opportunities for new Turnpike along with California and Missouri approaches to traffic management and safety,” which have dedicated lanes for trucks and cars Communications Director Douglas Rosenthal. SECURITY A.G. Schneiderman Joins Congressman Maffei to Announce Co-sponsorship of Smartphone Theft Prevention Act Legislation Would Require Smartphone Makers to Install Kill Switches that Let Consumers Remotely Delete Data from Stolen Phones and Render Devices Useless to Thieves SYRACUSE NY— Attorney General implement the technology necessary to end leadership and I look forward to continuing coalition. By bringing together law enforce- risen by more than 15 percent this year. This Eric T. Schneiderman today was joined by the violent smartphone theft epidemic. I ment, elected leaders from across the country, is mainly driven by the theft of phones, with Syracuse Congressman Dan Maffei, Mayor thank Senator Valesky for joining the Secure and consumer advocates, I’m confident we some 10,000 handsets stolen in the city every Stephanie Miner, Senator David Valesky Our Smartphones coalition and pledging to can work to reverse this dangerous trend.” month. and Syracuse Police Chief Frank Fowler at do what they can to put a stop to this growing “The issue of smartphone theft is a Street-level thieves feed a massive global Syracuse City Hall to announce Congressman problem. I also want to express my gratitude growing problem in the City of Syracuse, and marketplace for stolen phones that is too large Maffei’s co-sponsorship of a bill – recently to Mayor Miner and Chief Fowler, both of it’s why I’ve joined the Attorney General’s or lucrative for any single community to stop. proposed in the United States House of whom previously joined the coalition, for Secure our Smartphones coalition,” said Mobile devices that are reported stolen in the Representatives – that would require a kill showing their support today, and for their Police Chief Frank Fowler. “Even as crime United States and no longer able to access switch on smartphones to deter thieves and unwavering commitment to the safety and levels drop in most areas, the rise in the domestic cell networks can be reactivated to help end the violent epidemic of smartphone well-being of local families.” number of smartphone thefts is alarming. I work in foreign countries. In Hong Kong, for thefts. Attorney General Schneiderman “Thefts involving smartphones are on commend the Attorney General for part- example, iPhones are worth upward of $2,000 also announced today that Senator Valesky the rise in Central New York and across the Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman nering with law enforcement agencies and apiece. has joined the Secure Our Smartphones nation, endangering people in our community taking a comprehensive approach to address- Launched early last year, the S.O.S. (S.O.S.) Initiative. Mayor Miner and Police and costing consumers more than $30 billion ing this issue. I also look forward to working Initiative is an international coalition of Chief Fowler are already members of the a year,” said Rep. Dan Maffei (D-Syracuse). to working together on this issue.” with him to prevent smartphone thefts in our prosecutors, police chiefs, state and city comp- coalition, which includes prosecutors, police “H.R. 4065 would deter smartphone thefts by “Smartphone theft is a serious concern in community.” trollers, and public safety activists co-chaired chiefs, attorneys general, public officials and creating an emergency ‘kill switch’ that ensures Central New York; many people are injured Even as most types of property crime by Attorney General Schneiderman, San consumer activists working to encourage the stolen devices won’t have value on the black during these robberies,” Senator David are falling, in communities across the United Francisco District Attorney George Gascón smartphone industry to implement meaning- market. This common-sense legislation also J. Valesky said. “The best solution to the States and in the United Kingdom, the theft and London Mayor Boris Johnson. Members ful solutions to stop the epidemic known as takes critical steps to protect consumers by problem is to make these phones unusable, of smartphones has spiked dramatically. In of the initiative are committed to pressing the “Apple Picking” – the theft of popular mobile giving them control of their personal phone and therefore of no value, if stolen. I commend the United States, one in three thefts involves industry to find an effective way to combat communications devices such as smartphones data.” Attorney General Schneiderman for his lead- a mobile communications device. Consumer the rise of often violent robberies involving and tablets. “I’m proud to be a member of the ership and look forward to working together Reports estimates that 1.6 million Americans smartphones. “The time has come for phone carriers Attorney General’s Secure our Smartphones on this issue.” were victimized by smartphone thieves in Gain more information on efforts by and manufacturers to step up to the plate and initiative,” said Syracuse Mayor Stephanie A. “The public needs to be aware of the 2012. Attorney General Schneiderman, District make the safety of their customers their bottom Miner. “Working together to reduce smart- fact that criminals are targeting smartphones, Last year, 50 percent of robberies in San Attorney Gascón and Mayor Johnson line,” Attorney General Schneiderman said. phone theft helps make cities like Syracuse and that smartphone theft is growing at an Francisco targeted such a device. In New York to combat “Apple Picking,” visit the San “I commend Congressman Maffei for his safer. Smartphone theft needs to be tackled alarming rate,” said Assemblyman William City, the number was 20 percent, a 40 percent Francisco District Attorney’s website, the support and co-sponsorship of this ground- on all levels, from law enforcement on the Magnarelli. “I commend the Attorney increase from the year before. In London, New York State Attorney General’s website breaking legislation that calls on cell phone ground all the way to phone manufacturers. I General for recognizing this emerging issue, although crime overall is falling, offenses or the London Mayor’s website. carriers and manufacturers to develop and appreciate Attorney General Schneiderman’s and for forming the Secure our Smartphones such as pickpocketing and bag snatches have BUDGET Board of Education Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano Proposes Fiscal Year 2015 Executive Budget The Executive Budget includes a $521.9 million appropriation for the Board of YONKERS, NY – April 11, 2014 – Yonkers takes significant steps towards fixing inher- “The FY 2015 Budget I present to you confines of the state-mandated property tax Education (YBoE). Mayor Mike Spano today released his (Fiscal ited structural problems in a balanced manner, today, I believe, is still a lean, balanced budget cap that the City has accomplished for three Year) FY2015 Executive Budget proposal at while conforming to the property tax cap and that strives to continue the progress we have consecutive years,” said Mayor Spano. In order to close the Board of Education’s revenue and structural deficit ($72 million) a briefing for the City Council at Yonkers managing the Board of Education’s revenue made, while slowly overcoming the Board The Executive Budget for the FY 2015 presented this year, the municipal operating City Hall. The Executive Budget package overstatement of Education deficit, and staying within the is $1.02 billion. THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN Thursday, APRIL 17, 2014 Page 15

BUDGET Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano Proposes Fiscal Year 2015 Executive Budget cuts to vital services difficult choices to make in the coming • Municipal Budget to assume $10 million months. The economic hardships facing our budget will assume $10 million in administra- City to Provide Additional $10 our residents as well,” said Mayor Spano. of BOE budget to protect classrooms/ City are real yet, today, I propose a budget that takes aim at those hardships, is balanced and tive costs from the School District, providing Million to Board of Education “Included in the Executive Budget is $44 programs Yonkers Public Schools (YPS) with signifi- million in proposed capital improvements one which protects property taxpayers while by Assuming Non-Scholastic • Proposed 1.0% increase in property taxes cant relief that will offset loss in revenue and – which is a holistic approach to allocating (one of lowest since 1998) providing historic investment to the Board of Administrative Functions help preserve instructional/classroom costs. for improvements. We expect the amount of • City of Yonkers Stays within state Education to help address their unforeseen The $10 million investment will allow for this allocation will reduce as we negotiate and deficit.” Mayor to Appoint Commission mandated 2% tax cap for 3rd consecutive the much-needed consolidation of overlap- prioritize the projects with the City Council. year; residents to receive tax rebate from The complete FY 2015 Executive ping functions between the City and YBoE of Consolidation & Efficiencies I look forward to working with them and New York State Budget can be downloaded at www.yonker- that were causing the YPS District to spend to Find $12 Million in Savings hearing input from our residents on how we • Proposed increase in Personal Income Tax sny.gov. too much money on non-academic func- in Board of Education Budget can best plan for a better, stronger quality of from 15% to 19.25% ($140 per year for tions. Under the new state law that Mayor life for Yonkers.” Christina Gilmartin: Communications Director, median Yonkers taxpayer) Office of the Mayor. Spano requested and obtained, the City is Yonkers Property Owners to Budget Snapshot: • $1.02 billion total budget now authorized to consolidate the Board Receive Tax Rebates from • No eliminations of municipal positions; no Mayor Spano concluded, “We have of Education’s administrative departments, New York State as City Stays which will include human resources, law and Within 2% Tax Cap for Third finance. Consecutive Year “In order to achieve the savings seen A Cause For Paws Pet Adoptions from consolidations, I will be appoint- ing a Commission on Consolidation & contracts which must be resolved to avoid Efficiencies in the coming weeks,” said Mayor further compounding interest costs, the City Spano. “I will ask the City Council President, must find additional revenue streams and the Council Budget Chair, the Council therefore proposes a revenue increase of $9.8 Majority Leader and the Council Education million generated by maximizing the Personal Chair to form the Commission and assist the Income Tax Surcharge (PIT) as authorized Board of Education in finding efficiencies by New York State. The proposed PIT sur- and achieving $12 million in savings, or 2.3% charge is 19.25% of one’s New York State of the overall YBoE budget, without jeopar- income tax, an increase of $140 per year for dizing recently restored programs or adversely the median household earning $55,000 per impacting the classroom.” year. The PIT is a more progressive revenue Additionally, the City will invest $5 source and avoids impacting those living on million for Yonkers Board of Education a fixed income such as many of the City’s seniors who would be severely impacted if the textbooks. This, along with an additional $45 Whiskey is a very friendy cat who City were to break the property tax cap. Siggy is an 8 yr. old, neutered male Solo is a friendly and energetic 2 yr. million in state aid, and $12 million in admin- orange tabby. He is very calm and old neutered male pit mix. He loves is looking for a loving home. He is istrative savings to be realized by the Board of Recognizing that property taxpayers good with dogs, cats & kids. Whiskey have been overburdened for far too long, the easy going, and is good with dogs, to play and go for runs. He is good Education, closes the Board of Education’s cats & kids. with dogs, cats & kids. is a neutered male and is 2 yrs old. budget gap. Executive Budget proposes an increase in the

Municipal Budget property tax levy of just 1.0%, one of the lowest To submit an adoption application or to inquire about other cats and dogs looking for homes, please contact property tax increases since 1998. For the year, The Executive Budget for the FY2015 an average property taxpayer will see their [email protected] includes a municipal operating budget of property taxes increase on an average of $120. $497.1 million. By staying within the state-mandated 2% tax The Executive Budget proposes a 1.0% cap for the 2015 fiscal year, Yonkers property property tax increase, the one of the lowest owners will be provided relief through tax property tax increases since 1998. rebates offered by New York State. In order to offset the Board of Education “Even though we face challenges ahead, overstatement and outstanding labor we have to invest in the quality of life of

MIDDLE EAST FORUM Jerusalem is Not Up for Grabs By EFRAIM INBAR the Palestinians demand the partition of Jerusalem. US Secretary of State John The Palestinians and most of the inter- Kerry has blamed the sudden national community fail to understand that deadlock in peace negotia- the past offers made to divide Jerusalem – by tions between Israel and the Ehud Barak at the Camp David summit in Palestinian Authority on 2000, and repeated by Ehud Olmert in 2007 Israel’s plans to build additional apartments – were divorced from the strong attachment in Gilo, a southern Jerusalem neighbor- a majority of Israelis feel towards the eternal hood beyond the Green Line. This indicates city. The willingness of Barak and Olmert America’s profound misunderstanding of the to divide the city completely lacks domestic situation. With over 40,000 residents, Gilo political support. Furthermore, strategic con- is to be part of Israel under any agreement. siderations also dictate that Israel hold onto More importantly, the peace negotiations have little chance of succeeding as long as Continued on page 16 Page 16 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN Thursday, APRIL 17, 2014

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Jerusalem Up for Grabs political circumstances is strategically foolish. The turmoil of the past few years in the Arab Continued from page 15 world suggests the need for great caution. The partition of Jerusalem is also a bad greater Jerusalem as a united city. idea given the history of cities such as Berlin, Israeli public opinion is committed to Belfast or Nicosia. Why should Jerusalem be maintaining the status quo in Jerusalem. All different?! Jews have held a majority in the polls show that over two thirds of Israelis city for the past 150 years, while Jerusalem has feel that Jerusalem should remain the united never been the capital of any Arab or Muslim capital of Israel, while only 20 percent favor political entity. dividing the capital between the Jewish state Moreover, the Arab minority in the city and a future Palestinian state. The group of has clearly shown its preference for living Israelis expressing the strongest support in under Israeli rule. Many Arabs have moved favor of Jerusalem remaining the undivided to the Israeli side of the security barrier being capital of Israel (almost 80 percent) is between built around Jerusalem. Polls show that a the ages of 18 and 24. Of this group, even large majority of Jerusalem’s Arabs oppose stronger support was expressed by Ultra- being subject to Palestinian rule. Their choice Orthodox and religious Israelis who are the is understandable, since Jerusalem offers the fastest growing segments in the Jewish popu- quality of life of a modern Western city; while lation. When asked whether Israel should only a few kilometers away, a Third World relinquish control over the Temple Mount in standard of living and religious intolerance are Jerusalem, the holiest place in the world for the norm. An undivided Jerusalem is the best Jews, over 70 percent of Israelis disagreed. guarantee for a better life for all Jerusalemites. After Barak’s offer in 2000, over 250,000 No Israeli government will survive or support concessions made in Jerusalem, it is time for the U.S. and international community to recognize this. In sum, the unreasonable Palestinian people demonstrated in opposition to Barak’s transfer of sovereignty in Jerusalem. Jerusalem’s importance to Jews is not only Jerusalem. Keeping Greater Jerusalem, demand to divide Jerusalem is an obstacle violation of the Jerusalem taboo – the largest towards a better future. rally ever held in the city. The electrifying hold In 2000, the division of Jerusalem lacked historical and religious. The city also holds which includes the settlement blocs that the necessary majority in the Knesset and strategic importance in controlling the only President Bush recognized as realities that First published in BESA Center of Jerusalem on the Jewish psyche is not suf- Perspectives on April 10, 2014. ficiently appreciated. Moreover, an Orthodox Barak’s coalition subsequently disintegrated highway from the coast of the Mediterranean must be accommodated in a future settle- http://www.meforum.org/3805/ injunction against visiting the Temple (for this and other reasons). Similarly, in 2008, Sea to the Jordan River Valley, along which ment, is a strategic imperative. The military jerusalem-israel-palestinians Mount has eroded, allowing a growing Prime Minister Olmert experienced coalition military forces can move with little interfer- importance of Jerusalem and Jerusalem’s number of Israelis the spiritual experience difficulties because he placed Jerusalem on ence from Arab communities. Jerusalem is central role in the eastern line of defense for Efraim Inbar, director of the Begin-Sadat Center of ascending the Mount and conjoining the the negotiators’ agenda. No Israeli govern- the linchpin for erecting a security zone along Israel cannot be ignored, especially given the for Strategic Studies, is a professor of political metaphysical past and future. Such feelings ment is likely to survive concessions regarding the Jordan Rift that Israel insists on. If Israel immense potential for political upheaval east studies. are politically potent, foreclosing the possi- Jerusalem. If elections are held in the near wants to maintain a defensible border in the of the Jordan River. Designing stable defen- bility that Israelis will sit idly by and abide a future, the strength of the opposition to any East, it needs to secure the east-west axis from sible borders in accordance with current, but concessions in Jerusalem is only likely to grow. the coast to the Jordan Valley, via an undivided transient, state-of-the-art technological and MIDDLE EAST FORUM

Assad is talking about continued has made minor progress without in any way in Syria, is trying to force its way into the Assad’s Boasts progress toward a general defeat of the rebels. endangering the government-controlled area. Kurdish held Kobani (Ayn al-Arab) area in Nasrallah is doing what Nasrallah does best – But while the regime has demonstra- northern- central Syria. So far, the YPG has By JONATHAN SPYER namely, taking the existing difficult reality and bly avoided collapse, the same problems that repulsed the ISIS attacks. painting it in the colors of victory. prevented it since mid-2012 from reimposing Secondly, despite the establishment of Syrian President Bashar Nasrallah’s position is thus more reflec- effective control over the entirety of Syria still the NDF and the presence of Hezbollah and Assad this week said he tive of the actual situation. Assad’s reflects remain. other militias, the regime still does not have expects that major military hubris and over-confidence. First of all, it is worth noting that the the manpower to effectively control these operations in Syria will The Iran-led regional bloc has indeed rebellion too has not collapsed and shows no areas, and it knows it. It’s for this reason that conclude by the end of 2014. scored an impressive achievement in Syria signs of doing so. Assad has avoided making any major incur- Following this, all that will remain will be the over the last year. Despite its internecine struggles, and the sion into the rebel heartland since his strategic need to deal with the ongoing problem of retreat from the north in the summer of 2012. This achievement was crowned with of Iraqi Shiite volunteers helped to slow and absence of the kind of centralized, coordinated “terrorists.” When Qusayr fell to Hezbollah fighters the recent fall of the town of Yabrud, which halt rebel advances. The regime has now com- external aid that the regime enjoys, various The bullish confidence of the Syrian last June, pro-regime mouthpieces began to completed the regime’s re-conquest of the pleted a limited counter-attack. rebel and jihadi elements remain firmly in leader followed recent remarks by Hezbollah Qalamun mountains area, and effectively control of the greater part of northern and crow that rebel- controlled eastern Aleppo This undoubted achievement does not, Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah, who sealed the border of Lebanon from the rebels. eastern Syria, and also holds a section of would be next, and that the regime would however, portend the imminent re-conquest said in a speech that the danger that the The achievement is largely the result of Deraa province in the south. then roll up the rebel-held zones in Idlib, Syrian regime could fall has now been averted. of the entirety of Syria by the regime. Rather, Aleppo and Raqqa provinces. the major mobilization of Iranian and pro- it serves to solidify and unite the main regime- The Syrian Kurds, meanwhile, are main- What do such statements reflect? Is the But no such move was even attempted. Iranian regional assets that took place from controlled areas of the country – namely, the taining their control over a large enclave in Syrian regime now within realistic sight of a The regime preferred to exercise effective early 2013, in response to the serious rebel capital city of Damascus and its environs, northeastern Syria, and two smaller areas strategic victory in the brutal three-year civil control of a smaller area of territory while advances of late 2012. and the western coastal area. The latter is the farther west. These areas are held by the for- war against the rebellion that rose to chal- continuing to proclaim itself the legitimate The Iranians understood that Assad’s ancestral heartland of the Assad family itself midable People’s Protection Units (YPG) lenge it? Or has Assad effectively resigned ruler of all of Syria. problem was a shortage of loyal combat and of the Alawi sect from which it springs. militia, which has shown itself willing and himself to being the ruler of the around 40 able to resist both government and rebel/ Meanwhile, Bashar Assad’s domination soldiers. Under the direction of Qods Force The regime has now established firm percent of Syrian territory that he currently jihadi forces when required. of the skies over Syria has been effectively commander Qassem Suleimani, a new, loyal, control along the highway linking Damascus presides over? First of all, it is worth noting utilized to prevent the emergence of any sectarian based force – the National Defense and the coast. The rebels, subsequent to the The Kurds are currently engaged in a that the two statements, while each expressing properly-governed area in the rebel- con- Force (NDF) – was created to fill this gap. fall of Yabrud, launched a counter-attack ferocious warwithin- the-war against the optimism, appear to reflect different analytical This, together with the greater number of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria group. The trolled zones. This has been achieved through positions. against the northern border of the regime Hezbollah fighters deployed and the presence held enclave, in Latakia province. This attack latter, the most brutal of the jihadi militias Continued on page 17 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN Thursday, APRIL 17, 2014 Page 17

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Rather, they represent the consolidation returned to power by his grateful people with Assad’s Boasts by the regime of its area of control and the a huge majority. ending of any immediate danger to it. The dictator has, nevertheless, managed Continued from page 16 These achievements should be placed to stave off the prospect of imminent defeat. against the recent rebel offensives into The result is not an imminent victory, but the brutal tactic of mass bombings of civilian northern Latakia and the presence of rather the de facto partition of Syria into areas to cause maximum civilian death and US-made BGM-71 TOW anti-tank missiles ethnic and sectarian enclaves. destruction. on the southern Idlib battlefield, suggesting First published in The Jerusalem Post So in short, the recent regime achieve- the US may be in the process of increasing its on April 10, 2014; ments, though notable, do not represent the provision of weaponry to the rebels in terms of http://www.meforum.org/3806/ kind of game-changing development that both quality and quantity. assad-civil-war could presage an end to the long stalemate Assad is inclined to boasting, and the in the Syrian civil war and the beginning of a regime-controlled parts of Syria are due this Jonathan Spyer is a senior research fellow at general rout of the rebels and a final decision year to witness the farce of a “presidential the Global Research in International Affairs in the war in favor of the Assads. election,” which will no doubt see the dictator (GLORIA) Center and a fellow at the Middle East Forum. INTERNATIONAL Open 7 Days A Week Achieving Long-term Stability in Ukraine Is Key to Navigating Watershed Moment in East-West Relations By LEE HAMILTON into account the vastly differing perspectives delusional. I think his actions are shrewd, cal- NYC’s #1 and interests of the various groups involved culated and compatible with his interests. In recent days, there has been in the crisis, including Americans, Europeans, As wily as he is, Putin is unlikely to no shortage of opinions about Russians and, yes, Ukrainians themselves. invade Ukraine; the costs are too high. He’s Ukraine, the escalating crisis The large question looming over already obtained Crimea, a hugely impor- over that country’s future Ukrainians is whether they can actually help tant area to Russia’s national security with and the international com- themselves. Ukraine, to be blunt, is a mess. its dozen or so military bases. He has shown TOPlESS munity’s response to Russia’s bold takeover of Corruption in the country is rampant. Its himself to be an opportunist, and he’s largely Crimea. economy is anemic, and its armed forces achieved what he wanted. The conversation thus far has largely are in disarray. Little in the country’s recent In doing so, he has elicited a fair amount centered on how the U.S. and its European history suggests its citizens can step up and of anger from America and its allies. In turn, allies can ease the standoff over Ukraine, help themselves, no matter how much foreign a number of analysts have called for isolating SPORTS convince Russia to scale back the tens of thou- aid they receive. Still, they must be given every Russia from the international community sands of troops it has reportedly amassed near opportunity to try. An immediate and large as punishment. But cutting off Russia com- Ukraine’s border and prevent a prolonged infusion of cash to the Ukrainian govern- pletely would be unwise and shortsighted. crisis in this important part of the world. ment for urgent needs must be followed by Russia is simply too important a player in Missing from much of the discus- more targeted aid conditioned on Ukrainian many critical global debates, including over sion, though, is a frank assessment of what BAR performance. Iran, Syria and the spread of nuclear weapons. exactly the U.S. and its European allies seek to For Europeans, the question is whether No matter how mad we are in the moment, accomplish outside the more immediate aim they will work with the U.S. in rhetorically we will have to collaborate and cooperate of keeping the Russians out of Ukraine. That condemning Russia’s aggressive actions with them in the future on areas of common • Gentlemen’s Club is, what is our long-term objective with regard toward Ukraine and, more importantly, interest. to this troubled nation and, if there is one, is imposing tough sanctions on all sectors of the Keeping open a selective engagement it attainable? • sushi RestauRant Russian economy, including its energy and does not mean, however, that the international Make no mistake: What’s happening in finance sectors (even though they will require community should accept Putin’s aggres- Ukraine represents an extremely dangerous some sacrifice on our part). Thus far, we and sive actions. We should strongly condemn • Fine DininG crisis, as alarming and precarious as any crisis the Europeans have taken only modest, largely Russia’s actions, impose tough sanctions and of the post-Cold War period. Indeed, we are symbolic actions, while signaling a reluctance show Russia that you cannot change national undoubtedly at a watershed moment in East- to levy stringent sanctions on Russia. boundaries by force without costs and con- West relations; regardless of the energy and Meanwhile, North Atlantic Treaty sequences. At the same time, it’s important NYC’s oNlY BoDY SUSHI good-faith effort we put forth, we will not Organization, which has struggled in its that we don’t overstate what we are prepared solve this crisis rapidly or easily. search for a new mission in the region since to do. The tougher we are with our rhetoric, Acknowledging that we must patiently leading the recent military intervention in the tougher it will be to eventually come to invest in Ukraine over the long haul is the first Afghanistan, needs to be re-energized. The agreement with Russia on other important step toward achieving what I believe should 252 West 43rd St. Ukrainians aren’t ready to join the alliance, issues of U.S. national security. Russia’s bad be our primary goal: We must work with but this crisis may be the jolt it needs to find behavior in Ukraine must not lead us to isolate (Between 7th & 8th Ave.) our allies and the Russians to build a stable, new relevance. A reaffirmed alliance would the country in all areas. Remember, we main- prosperous and well-governed Ukraine that also signal to our European allies that we are tained engagement with the Soviet Union has a strong, flourishing relationship with strongly committed to their security. throughout the Cold War. its neighboring nations, including Russia. 212-819-9300 The overriding question for Russia is The Obama administration confronts a Paramount to this effort will be ensuring that whether President Vladimir Putin will be major challenge in keeping open a dialogue www.mycheetahsnyc.com Ukrainians have the right to determine their content with annexing Crimea and leaving with Russia, while developing and preserv- own fate freely, peacefully and without foreign Ukraine alone. I do not agree with those ing a united front with Europe against interference. who, in the wake of Russia’s lightning seizure Putin’s aggression. We will not -- and should Achieving this goal will require taking of Crimea, have described Putin as crazy or Continued on page 18 FREE ADMISSION WITH THIS PASS Page 18 THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN Thursday, APRIL 17, 2014

INTERNATIONAL Achieving Long-term Stability in Ukraine Is Key to Navigating East-West Relations LEGAL NOTICES Continued from page 17 -- which, thankfully, is appearing increasingly Ukraine. SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS unlikely -- would present us with even more not -- go to war over the occupation of Lee H. Hamilton is Professor of Practice, Indiana Index No.: 58107/2013 difficult choices. But even then, aggressive Crimea. However, that occupation should be University School of Public and Environmental economic sanctions would be the strongest Date of Filing:February 7, 2014 punished, and Putin should be discouraged Affairs; Distinguished Scholar, IU School of possible action America and its allies could SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK from future actions through economic force. Global and International Studies; Director, take. Our policy will have to be selective and Center on Congress at Indiana University. He COUNTY OF Westchester nuanced, with a mixture of containment, As the crisis continues, we will undoubt- served as U.S. Representative from Indiana’s 9th WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A., Plaintiff, engagement, isolation and punishment strat- edly hear more calls for tougher action against Congressional District from 1965-1999. Russia. But it is equally vital that we identify -against- egies. Our challenge in enacting that policy CHRISTINE M CUSHEN, if living, or if either or all be dead, their wives, husbands, heirs-at- will be to stay the course and keep our alli- and clearly communicate our main objec- tive, which should be supporting, stabilizing law, next of kin, distributees, executors, administrators, assignees, lienors and generally all ances intact. A Russian invasion of Ukraine persons having or claiming under, by or through said CHRISTINE M CUSHEN, by purchase, and strengthening a free and independent inheritance, lien or otherwise, of any right, title or interest in and to the premises described in the complaint herein, and the respective husbands, wives, widow or widowers of them, if any, POLITICAL STRATEGY all of whose names are unknown to plaintiff; BOARD OF MANAGERS VILLAS ON THE LAKE CONDOMINIUM; STATE OF NEW YORK; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; “JOHN DOES” and “JANE DOES”, said names being fictitious, parties intended being possible tenants or occu- pants of premises, and corporations, other entities or persons who claim, or may claim, a lien The Time Has Come: Rise of the P.I.N.O. Politician against the premises, Defendants. TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS: By LUKE HAMILTON progressive policy is becoming plain. Despite women would be courted by the lickspittle YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of the best efforts of the lickspittle media, the media and funded by the RNC, just like all your answer, or, if the complaint is not served with this summons, to serve a Notice of Appear- We are in the early days, yet Emperor’s bare buttocks are now flapping in of those RINOs we despise, only when these ance on the Plaintiff’s attorney(s) within twenty (20) days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service, where service is made by delivery upon you personally within the prognosis for the 2014 the breeze for a wide swath of Americans. crypto-patriots get to office, they’ll legislate mid-term election looks the State, or within thirty (30) days after completion of service where service is made in any Some are even experiencing voter’s remorse, like the staunch conservatives we have been other manner, and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against promising. The mid-term is realizing that the administration who pre- seeking. you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. always tough on the party tended to be Liberal is making the Bush This cannot be an organized opera- NOTICE in the White House, but this year is shaping administration look like Noam Chomsky. tion. This requires spontaneous participation up to be especially punishing. A confluence of YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME This is a two-edged sword, since the recently- by a number of committed individuals. No issues is coagulating into a creamy cup of crap If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the woken Obama zombies could seek still more one can direct or coordinate this campaign for incumbent statists. Issues like Obamacare, attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing radical leftists, more thoroughly committed strategy; it has to be deep-cover and held very the obfuscation of personal privacy by the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. to the cause; ideologues like De Blasio or close to the vest. We’ve seen what can happen Big Brother, the pathetic job market, our Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on Elizabeth Warren provide just the sort of red when a RINO’s mask slips (Dede Scozzafava, bumbling of international diplomacy over how to answer the summons and protect your property. meat those succubi crave. anyone?) and cannot take that risk. The beauty Ukraine, the pathetic housing market, various Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. We can no longer leave things in the of it is that the progressives in media and the IRS scandals, even Benghazi are all coalesc- YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE hands of the GOP’s political consultants GOP will be caught unawares. Once the first ing into an albatross which should rightfully PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. and survey monkeys. They give us terrible few PINOs have surfaced, the RNC will be hang from the necks of the Big Government Presidential candidates and actively work more paranoid than Cheech & Chong on an YOU ARE HEREBY PUT ON NOTICE THAT WE ARE ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A DEBT, AND progressives in office today. Even school kids ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. against constitutional conservatives in overnight layover in Denver. They’ll be unable are beginning to turn on the MTV President, Congressional and state elections. I propose to tell a PINO from a Mark Kirk! Just think TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS: starting a Twitter trend by posting pictures of we take a page from their own playbook. I’m about the apoplexy which awaits supporters The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Honor- their pathetic school lunches with thank-you tired of talking about (and being governed of organizations like Planned Parenthood, the able Francesca E. Connolly of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, signed on January letters to Michelle Obama. 9, 2014, and filed with supporting papers in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Westchester, by) RINOs. I want to talk about PINOs. We Human Rights Campaign, and SEIU when State of New York. This backlash is brewing despite the aren’t winning as many elections as we should they learn that their organization helped elect The object of this action is to foreclose a mortgage upon the premises described below, ex- most lackluster, impotent Republican opposi- because we aren’t fighting as smartly as we a Tea Party conservative! tion imaginable. The GOP is either suffering ecuted by CHRISTINE M CUSHEN to WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. in the principal amount of should. We’re like the guy in a highlight video I am calling for 2016 to be the Year of $200,000.00, which mortgage was recorded in Westchester County, State of New York, on Oc- from a crisis of leadership, a desire to replace from Mike Tyson’s early career; attempt- the PINO Candidate. Progressives have been tober 25, 2004, in Control #: 442570574. Democratic socialism with Republican social- ing to engage in “fisticuffs” with a pitbull in trying to force us into the closet for years. I say Said premises being known as and by 7 COUNTRY PLACE, MOHEGAN LAKE, NY 10547-1269. ism—or both. Since the 2010 election, John boxer trunks. We laugh when we watch how we acquiesce, only to emerge in 2 years with a Boehner and Mitch McConnell have sur- Date: November 19, 2013 expediently Mike took care of them; but that cadre of crypto-conservatives ready to bite the rendered without a fight on issue after issue Batavia, New York is us, in the political realm. We are unprepared progressive hands which have fed them and Tanisha Bramwell, Esq. after issue, ostensibly pointing toward some for what we face and stuck playing by the old strike a blow for the little guy. It’s Mr. Smith ROSICKI, ROSICKI & ASSOCIATES, P.C. arcane endgame they have in mind; but our Attorneys for Plaintiff rules. We’ve also hit the canvas a number of Goes to Washington with an ironic, Alinskian opponents have been on the ropes for months Batavia Office 26 Harvester Avenue times in recent rounds and our corner can’t twist. Batavia, NY 14020 while we await the arrival of a knock-out wait to throw in the towel, every chance they 585.815.0288 punch, or even a stiff jab. This backlash is get! Luke Hamilton is classically-trained, not thanks to the French Republicans in Shakespearean actor from Eugene, Oregon who Help For Homeowners In Foreclosure The choices seem stark, but there is some Washington, but in spite of them. happens to be a liberty-loving, right- wing, New York State Law requires that we send you this notice about the foreclosure process. middle ground between pure Alinskian prag- Christian constitutionalist. When not penning Please read it carefully. Mortgage foreclosure is a complex process. Some people may ap- The outlook is favorable for conserva- matism and vanilla fisticuffs, Mike Tyson and proach you about “saving” your home. You should be extremely careful about any such prom- columns for ClashDaily. com, Hamilton spends tives for only 2 reasons. First, Joe and Judy Glass Joe. I’m talking about a PINO politi- ises. The State encourages you to become informed about your options in foreclosure. There his time astride the Illinois-Wisconsin border, are government agencies, legal aid entities and other non-profit organizations that you may Patriot have never taken their eye off the ball. cian: Progressive In Name Only. Why should leading bands of liberty-starved citizens from contact for information about foreclosure while you are working with your lender during this True American patriots have been battling we be continually stuck with politicians who the progres- sive gulags of Illinois to [relative] process. To locate an entity near you, you may call the toll-free helpline maintained by the New and protesting and raging since the LAST reveal their progressive tendencies over the York State Banking Department at 1-877-BANKNYS (1-877-226-5697) or visit the Department’s freedom. Hamilton is the creative mind/voice mid-term election, when we handed Boehner caviar at the swearing-in ceremony? What we website at www.banking.state.ny.us. The State does not guarantee the advice of these agen- behind Pillar & Cloud Productions, a budding cies. his Speakership. We’ve been holding their feet need are candidates who will run as moderate, production company which resides at www. to the fire and will continue to do so through milquetoast Republican progressives, but PillarCloudProductions.com. He owes all to his grassroots organizations, citizen journal- vote like red-blooded patriots. A conserva- Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, whose strength is ists, and righteous outrage. Secondly, things tive in disguise! Think about it, these men and look favorable because the inherent idiocy of perfected in his weakness. THE WESTCHESTER GUARDIAN Thursday, APRIL 17, 2014 Page 19

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LEAVING ON A JET PLANE Lush Life: Kauai, Hawaii – the Garden Island By BARBARA BARTON own energy to the land. Sounds like a plan, green/gray canyons that surrounded us. Our SLOANE right? On the first Saturday of every month trip was further enlivened by van driver, Ka at Lygate Park, tourists are encouraged to do Pono, who also played “sweep,” following Is it possible to be homesick some beach grooming. I arrived at the park behind our group to make sure no one was for a place you’ve never been prepared with work gloves, water and sun left behind. He regaled us with jokes, stories to? You might say I’ve done protection; a rake was thrust into my hand of his Samoan ancestors, and his experience Hawaii. I’ve visited the Big and I joined a jovial and dedicated group holding the title of 4-time state champion Island, the largest in the Hawaiian chain, to do our (albeit small) ecotourism thing, bull rider. Yes, it was all downhill and all fun. I’ve had a frenzied, fun time on Oahu, the cleaning up the beach. Wheeeeee….. island that calls itself “the Heart of Hawaii”, Being a fan of soft (very soft) adventure, at and I’ve checked out the marvels of Maui, in the distance a trio singing the Hawaiian There’s even a festival dedicated to this the Princeville Ranch I found an activity that Romance Is In The Air “the Valley Isle.” But eluding me thus far was Wedding Song, their voices wafting through mystery meat-in-a-can. Spam worked its suited me to a T: cozily settling onto the saddle If you’re not in love when you get here, Kauai, known as “the Garden Island.” That a garden of bamboo, ginger, and banana way into the hearts and arteries of Hawaiians of a very old, slow nag named “Molly.” I slow- there’s a good chance you will be when you title alone, conjuring up deep, verdant forests, plants as you and your sweetie stroll up to the during WWII when fresh meat was scarce. walked Molly after Robin, the leader of the leave. This, after all, is Cupid’s playground outrageous tropical flowers and extraor- preacher? Renewing vows? Sign me up! As it needs no refrigeration, islanders stock group. She was professional and inspired some and it’s tailor-made for romance. Whether dinary birds like the endangered Akikiki up on this proletarian pork product and much-needed confidence as we horse-backed planning a wedding, honeymoon, anniver- Bet You Didn’t Know (just saying its name makes you smile) was find it comes in handy during hurricanes, enough to summon me. I had to go. One day I walked down to the water’s tsunamis or other natural disasters. Spam edge. Just a few feet from me, a fat gray jam, anyone? Getting Lei’d Monk Seal was struggling to flip himself up This island astounds with physical Doesn’t matter how many times you’ve on the moss covered rocks. After several tries beauty, its geological drama, its cliffs and seen it – in movies, on TV – when you arrive he succeeded and immediately closed his rivers, beaches and waterfalls. Yet by far the in Kauai and step off the plane, a gracious eyes to bask in the morning sun. He looked deepest experience of the Garden Island greeter places a lei of fresh orchids around adorable and sweet – I wanted to reach out comes from its cultural richness. Ancient your neck and you feel special. Ok, a bit and touch him. No can do. The Hawaiian legends of the island abound - in its history, clichéd but still…special. The island has 553 Monk Seal is among the most endangered its archaeology, and in its oral tradition - square miles of beach, rain forests, desert, creatures on earth. Often referred to as lending a spiritual, mystical aura that is mountains and plains. At Wai’ale’ale it rains “living fossils,” this seal has remained rela- palpable. Kauai: it’s no place like home. nearly every day, making it the wettest place tively unchanged for over 15 million years. The Meaning of Aloha on earth. Go a few miles west and rain is There are less than 30 of these guys on Kauai rare. The north shore is as lush as any place and both state and federal laws prohibit A stands for Akahai, meaning kindness on the planet and the south shore is a sunny touching or harassing them in any way. L stands for Lokahi, meaning unity playground. Kauai is known as the land How about this curious (and won- O stands for Olu’Olu, meaning agreeable of a thousand waterfalls, some tumbling hundreds of feet out of the jungle, some small enough to walk across and then jump into a lagoon and swim directly under a symphony of rushing water. One thing’s for certain: Kauai is nature on steroids. Mana translates to spiritual power and on this, Hawaii’s oldest island, mana is a quality both felt and seen. It’s palpable in the visual beauty of the land, the quality of air and ocean, and the interplay of natural elements that invigorate, relax, and reju- venate. Consider this: there’s no building higher than a coconut tree. Streams and rivers allow endless opportunities for recre- ation, and having fifty miles of white sand shoreline is something none of its sister islands can claim. H stands for Ha’Aha’A, meaning humility through glorious sights – cliffs, boulders, sary or vow renewal, this is the place. And Let’s Get Physical derful) fact: Kauai is relatively insect-free. A stands for Ahonui, meaning patience. mountains – all reminiscent of Jurassic Park bear in mind that here in Kauai, fantasy is One of the most satisfying ways to Whether in dense jungle foliage or hiking (whose 3 movies were filmed here). real. I mean, just consider these movies: Hawaiians believe that it starts with each of visit the Garden Isle is in harmony with the over arid plains – no bugs. Another com- us – that it starts in the heart. My favorite activity by far was cycling. Elvis got married at a tropical lagoon in forting thought: no snakes! I’m not quite principles of old Hawaii: respecting the land, the movie Blue Hawaii and in South Pacific, Aloha. caring for the land, and giving back to the Run by Outfitters Kauai whose claim is sure why but knowing this sure makes me “Our business is going downhill!” our ride Mitzi Gaynor just couldn’t wash that man happy. Travel Editor, Barbara Barton Sloane, is con- land. Ecotourism is practiced on a grand out of her hair. Celebration settings are was, indeed, downhill for the entire 12 easy, And then we have Spam. Spam-a-lot stantly globe-hopping to share with our readers scale here. It inspires volunteerism that impressive - from the Wailua River region breezy miles (scarcely a car on the road). It as a matter of fact. Did you not know that her unique experiences from the exotic to the enriches the environment and gives residents whose hau trees have heart-shaped leaves took me about 45 minutes, reaching speeds Hawaiians have a Spam fixation? On this sublime. She keeps us informed, as well, on the and visitors a chance to share their worlds to up-river where the Fern Grotto is a eco- up to 40 mph. Our group stopped several island, you can find Spam enchiladas, Spam capricious and engaging fashion and beauty and work together. The word limahuli means logical wonder, drippy and covered with times to gaze at the ocean and the mammoth frittatas, and Spam Reuben sandwiches. scene. “turning hands,” a reference to offering one’s exotic plants. Listen…can’t you just hear WWW.WESTCHESTERGUARDIAN.COM